#Chapter 57: The Cumb

Enzo

I was awoken by the gunshot just seconds before James came running back to camp.

“Enzo!” he yelled. “Enzo! Nina’s in trouble! There’s something out there!”

I didn’t need to hear any more. I quickly unzipped my tent and ran out, having kept my clothes and shoes on in case of an emergency. Unfortunately, the other campers were also awoken by the gunshot, and were already coming out of their tents with panicked looks on their faces.

“What’s happening?” Jessica asked, rubbing the sleep from her eyes.

I cursed to myself as I realized that I would have to wipe all of their memories of this night. I wasn’t nearly as good at it as Edward, but I had no choice. I couldn’t have them following

me out into the woods and potentially seeing a shifter, or worse; I couldn’t have them getting killed.

“Get back in your tents and go to sleep,” I said as I borrowed Fio’s power to daze the group all at once.

They all stopped moving in unison,

their eyes widening as they began

blinking slowly. I hadn’t used this ability in so long that I had forgotten how easy it was to daze humans; the fact that Nina couldn’t be dazed, even by Edward, was solid proof that she couldn’t possibly be entirely human.

“This was all just a dream,” I said.

inside while everyone else slowly zipped their tents back up. Once I was certain that they were under my spell, I cursed to myself once again and turned on my heel, sprinting into the woods and using Fio to help me

time. She was fighting with all of her might against a man who I couldn’t

his arm, which was dragging Nina by the ankle. When she saw me, she reached for me, her teary eyes begging

leaped forward and grabbed her by the hand, yanking with all my might and freeing her from the

a sobbing heap

me to stay with her, although I would have if she had asked. Instead, I chose to keep watch through the window of my own tent to make sure she was okay. I had put a protective barrier around the camp when I first got here that would keep out any unwanted

out

had the weirdest dream,” Lori said as she came out of

“Me too,” Jessica replied.

Matt said as he emerged from his tent with a grin. I’d observed him on enough overnight hockey tournament trips to know that he was

Nina said, pulling her boots on. “I’m gonna go collect some firewood so

eyes. She didn’t seem to mind the company; surely, after what happened the night before, she wouldn’t push me away quite so much

we were far enough away from the group. “I

always protect you, didn’t I?”

the ground. She always looked cute when she bit

for a minute, but I had burning questions that needed to be

guy, didn’t

asked.

sighed, nodding. “I did. I didn’t know he was a werewolf. He lied to me… serves me right for meeting strangers

that was the guy Luke said she met up with in

I asked, calming my nerves so that

me you were a werewolf, I didn’t believe you,” she said. “So I did research and found this guy on a forum he called himself K

“Like what?”

now that he was the very

tears welling up in Nina’s eyes and decided not to pry any further. Setting down my bundle of wood, I walked up to her and took the wood from her hands, then pulled her into a tight hug. Much to my surprise, she relaxed into me. I thought I felt her sobbing quietly into my shirt, but she didn’t

herself away from me and wiping her teary eyes with her

together,” I replied. “When will you learn that I’m not interested

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