#Chapter 63: Mad Wolf

Enzo

The second I saw the rogue, I knew exactly who it was.

Justin.

How had Justin turned into a rogue? I had just seen him at the hockey game and he seemed fine… But then my mind wandered back to his reaction when we didn’t win the shootout. Was that the beginning of his transformation?

Before I could stop him, he locked eyes with Nina and quickly ran away. He must’ve subconsciously recognized her in his rogue state, which would mean that he might not necessarily hurt her.

The woman, who was leaning on Nina’s shoulder, was holding her shredded leg as she bled all over the forest floor. I had to act quickly, or she would die of blood loss. “Run home as fast as you can,” I said to Nina sternly over the woman’s sobs as I walked forward and scooped her up in my arms. “Get home and stay inside until I tell you it’s safe.”

“But I–” Nina started to protest, but I wouldn’t hear any of it. She needed to get home safely; besides, Edward was still seemingly impervious to her

resistance to his hypnotherapy, and I didn’t need him getting suspicious of her if I suddenly showed up to his office with her knowing everything. If he

tried to hypnotize her again and failed, it would certainly alert him, the dean, and likely my father and there was no telling what might happen to Nina if they knew she couldn’t be brainwashed out of her knowledge of werewolves.

“Just listen to me, Nina,” I pleaded. Please. Just this once, I need you to trust me.”

The woman’s screams grew in intensity Before Nina could protest any further, I teleported directly into Edward’s office.

“What on earth?!” Edward yelled in surprise, jumping up from the armchair by his fireplace as I wordlessly set the agonized woman down on the couch. Edward raced over to us, his brow furrowed.

to her?” he

hand on the woman’s forehead. Within moments, her eyes fell shut and her body went limp so Edward could

his work, the woman’s flesh slowly healing beneath his

I lied. At this point,

he couldn’t hurt anybody, and teach him how to control his

magic on the woman. When I turned around after several minutes of staring out the window, I saw that her leg had been completely healed, and Edward was now pressing his thumb into her forehead as she slept, whispering incantations to himself with glowing

She’ll be fine. She’s lucky you found her

Edward,” I

nodded and clapped me on the back. “Not to

a step back, narrowing my eyes.” I never told

usual calm and collected demeanor “Oh, you

situation. As I stood there in the dark hallway after he slammed and locked the door behind me, I couldn’t help but feel as though there was something sinister behind his words. I knew for a fact that I hadn’t told

was Edward hiding?

all of the shifters

campus?

sides, was that I had to get to Justin before he did. As soon as I was out of the line of sight of

to realize that Nina’s scent was mixed in and was headed in the same direction. Had he come back for her before she made it out? I cursed to myself as my heart quickened and I picked up my speed, feeling like an absolute moron for leaving her here… And for what? The benefit of a s a strange woman who I didn’t

enough, I came across a clearing in the woods where their scents

was kneeling on the forest floor

into his human form? Rogues always stayed in

her eyes in my

I was relieved that she was okay, but also a bit

than that, however,

his shirt collar, pinning him to the ground. He thrashed beneath me, but even with the rogue curse in his blood he was

surprisingly firm and her voice rang clearly in

doesn’t remember,” she

meet her gaze as she continued to grip my arm. Her eyes were pleading and serious. I looked back down at Justin, who looked up at me with a mixture of confusion and terror on his face, before I finally loosened

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