#Chapter 69: Big Bad Wolf

Nina

I relaxed into Enzo’s arms, the feeling of his warmth and the smell of his leather jacket calming me immensely.

Click.

We both jumped as we heard the sound of a camera shutter clicking from my window. I stared with wide eyes while Enzo whirled around and ran to the window, shouting into the darkness.

“Get back here!” he yelled. “Who are you?!”

Before I could stop him, I watched in awe as Enzo jumped out of the window. I ran over, my heart leaping into my throat as I expected to see his body splayed out on the ground below, only to see him sprinting across the quad.

I had to follow him.

I sprinted from my room and out of my dorm, running down the hall and practically flying down the stairs. I burst out of the lobby into the cold autumn night air and ran in the direction that Enzo was headed.

“Wait! Enzo!” I called, willing my legs to pump faster as I tried to catch up with him. The wind whistled in my ears the faster I ran, my hair billowing behind me like a sail and coming loose from its braids. I didn’t know how I was able to run so fast, but somehow, I managed to catch up with Enzo just as he reached the edge of the woods.

I stopped beside him, panting, doubled over with my hands on my knees from my mad sprint.

them?” I

second story window and sprinted halfway across

I think it might’ve been

to head back to the dorms, but Enzo grabbed my arm and

can’t just let her walk away,” he

“She’s already posted so many pictures of us. What’s

bright red. “We don’t know how long she was there,” he

My eyes widened. “Shit.”

“I’m gonna have to go in there and find her You can go back home if

my mess and I won’t make you clean it up for

then snapped it shut and simply nodded instead. “Alright,” he said firmly, his

care to avoid tripping over tree roots and rocks, then came out on a hiking path at the bottom. I followed Enzo to the right, relying on his werewolf abilities to help lead the way. I didn’t want to use

walked, “I forgot to mention

Honestly, I didn’t really think of it. I was a little out of

explain later,” I replied, furrowing my brow. If Enzo hadn’t healed my

my foot caught on a fallen log that I didn’t see in the dark and I felt myself pitching forward. Enzo’s

“Thanks,” I whispered.

features, his bulging muscles, the veins in his neck, his strong jawline… Something about being in the dark forest together made me want

seen me staring at him, because a smirk spread across his

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