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Chapter 66: Candid

Nina

“That’s weird,” I said under my breath, peeling away the bandages the rest of the way while Jessica and Lori watched with confused expressions on their faces.

Where my knee had been completely torn up the night before, it was now perfectly fine… As though I had never been injured at all. I furrowed my brow and poked the area where I had been injured, but felt nothing out of the ordinary. Had the blood just made it appear worse than it really was? No… I remembered clearly that the skin was broken. I even had a gaping hole in the knee of my jeans to prove it.

Suddenly, my phone started buzzing and made all of us jump. I picked it up to see James’ number on my screen, momentarily making me forget about the strange occurrence with my knee.

“Hello?” I said, holding the phone up to my ear.

“Hey,” James said, sounding a bit excitable. “I have something to show you. Meet me on the quad in fifteen?”

“Uh, sure,” I replied.

I was still holding the bloody gauze in my hand when I hung up, and Lori and Jessica were still staring at me. This was definitely something I would have to talk to Enzo about later… Maybe he had simply healed my knee when I fell asleep. That was the only reasonable explanation, but it certainly wasn’t an explanation that I could give my roommates.

“I guess it just wasn’t as bad as it looked,” I said, tossing the bandage in the trash and walking back to my room as nonchalantly as I could while Jessica and Lori stared after me confusedly .

at the quad fifteen

seemed excited about something, too excited, apparently, to even greet me before reaching into his bag and pulling out a manila folder He handed it to me with a serious look on his face. “Check this out,” he said quietly, glancing over his shoulder as if someone would be listening in on our conversation. “It’s that Ronan guy’s

— all showing incredibly superior strength and speed — as well

with Enzo’s father’s company,” James said, pointing at the newspaper clippings. ” Not to mention the insane physical records. It

Ronan’s impressive physical skills. Was Ronan truly human, or was he hiding

nodded. “But why is the question,” he whispered. “Is the Blizzard Tournament really so important that two CEOS would plant their insanely talented sons

us could say anything else, James

staring at us and giggling. One of them was coming toward me… and it was Lisa. Her

hiding? And why now, of all

over to me, brushing past James to get up in my face. It was oddly similar to how she had acted the night

need to calm down,” I started to say, holding my hands up in surrender — but I was promptly interrupted by a lukewarm cup of coffee being thrown directly into my face. I stood there with my mouth

know you saw Enzo walking me home that night and just couldn’t stand it, so you just had to weasel your

on her heel with a hmph and stormed off

word, I dropped Ronan’s file and ran back to my dorm with the intention of staying in

my apartment, I burst inside and ran into

shouted when they knocked on my door. I heard concerned muttering on the other side of the door, but I didn’t care, all I wanted was to curl up into my shell and never come

more photos had been taken of me that morning and were posted to the anonymous

of me talking to James, as well as the moment when Lisa threw her coffee in my face. Had Lisa hired someone