My Hockey Alpha

Chapter 23: Monster

Enzo

Nina’s eyes widened when I finally told her the truth.

“No,” she said, pacing back and forth and rubbing her head. “This isn’t real. Werewolves aren’t real. Talking skeletons are not real!”

I sighed and stood, walking over to her.

“Look,” I said, pulling aside the torn fabric of my jeans to show her my wound. It was already healing. The torn flesh from the skeleton’s attack was rejoining without leaving so much as a scar. Even the blood disappeared.

When Nina saw my leg heal, she stumbled backwards into the wall, her chest heaving as she breathed heavily.

“I have to be dreaming,” she said. I watched quietly as she pinched her arm to try and wake herself up.

“This is real, Nina,” I said. “You’re awake.”

“Well then, I must be going insane,” she said as a tear rolled down her cheek.

I walked toward Nina and took her by the shoulders, stooping to look her in the eyes.

“You’re not crazy. Everything you saw is real. Don’t I feel real?” I took her hand and placed it on my chest, right over my heart so she could feel my heartbeat. She let her hand linger there for a few moments, then shuddered and pulled away.

“If you think I’m a monster, so be it,” I said. “But I won’t stop watching you, because someone — or something — has sinister plans for you, and no human can protect you.”

She shuddered again, but didn’t say anything Before

afraid of us,”

loud.

face the skeleton. The incantation I used on him would only last for so long before he reanimated again. Some witch must have put a spell on this

my foot. 1 looked down and cringed when I saw Nina’s phone on the floor, its screen cracked now. “Shit…” I

phone, the skeleton was starting to twitch again. I stormed over to it and grabbed it off the stand, pinning it, down to

and why?” I growled,

sent me,” the skeleton

throat.” What would an undead like yourself want with

skeleton didn’t respond, but I had to know the truth. My only option was to force an answer out of it. With my hand still on its neck, I

the bone saw so the skeleton could

along the skeleton’s ribs. ” Your arm? Or maybe I should go

stronger. Skeletons were the lowest form of the undead; without muscle or flesh, they were incredibly weak compared to most other supernatural beings. Becoming

the bone saw to the skeleton’s femur.

no one sent me. I

blade away from the skeleton’s leg and furrowed my brows. “What scent?” I

skeleton replied. “And a strong one at that. Strong enough

a human,”

not human,” it said. “I don’t know what she is, but she’s definitely not

might actually have been onto something. The way that Fio latched onto her from the beginning made me think that she was a bit out of the ordinary, but I hadn’t thought that she was supernatural in any way. She

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