#Chapter 62: Dark Creatures

Nina

A woman’s voice screamed for help from the forest. Enzo and I pulled away from each other, just as we were about to kiss for the second time that night. We looked at each other for a moment, the realization of the situation hitting us, before taking off toward the woods.

Could we not have one good night without people being injured or killed by werewolves?

“Stay here,” Enzo said just before we reached the woods. He stopped in his tracks and grabbed me by both shoulders, pushing me away from the entrance of the woods where students and locals often walked on the seemingly-safe nature trails.

I wrenched myself free and shook my head vigorously. Stay here? There was no way in hell I was letting Enzo go into the woods by himself. I would never forgive myself if something happened to him out there and I wasn’t there to help him. “No way!” I shouted, curling my hands up into fists. “I’m not letting you go alone.”

“Nina, it’s not safe–”

“I realize that, Enzo!” I said, stamping my foot angrily. “I’m going with you regardless!”

Enzo stared at me for a moment, a mixture of surprise and worry written across his face, before he sighed and nodded, straightening once more.” Alright,” he said, turning toward the trail that led into the forest and holding out his hand as the screams continued. “But stay close. Don’t let go of my hand.”

I took his hand and ran with him into the forest toward the source of the screams. It was frightening to run with such wild abandon in the forest, but I let Enzo lead the way; something in me told me to trust him to guide us as we ran, so I did.

turn, leaping over tree roots and

dropped my hand and stepped forward while

by her ankle as she clawed desperately at the ground, sobbing and screaming

shouted, his voice almost sounding like a growl on its own. The rogue looked up at him, the woman’s leg still in its mouth, then dropped her upon seeing

there was also something oddly

ran up to the woman and grabbed her hand, quickly helping

anything else could

rogue met my eyes, staring at me for a moment — as if it recognized me then

my voice shaking as I held the sobbing

Enzo turned and stormed toward me, grabbing the woman from my arms and scooping her up, his

can,” he said sternly over the woman’s sobs. “Get

“But I–”

low and serious. “Please Just this once, I

the blink of an eye, Enzo and the woman were just… gone.

find out who that rogue was, because something about it seemed too familiar to

I began to go in

as possible as I followed the rogue’s trail; it had crashed so haphazardly through the woods that I could

following the rogue’s trail for nearly twenty

in the middle of a clearing, staring up at the moon with its head tilted back. As I approached through the bushes, it heard me and jumped up, snarling. I

down. Its eyes stayed focused on me, but for some reason, I no longer felt frightened. Somehow, I knew that this rogue wasn’t going to hurt

out of the bushes and slowly approached it, my hand outstretched and my breathing ragged. With each. step closer, I expected the rogue to

massive muzzle, it

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