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.”

practically see the gears turning in her head. She shuddered again, but didn’t say anything Before I had

of us,”

out loud. “She is a

reanimated again. Some witch must have put a

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

I looked up from the broken phone, the skeleton was starting to twitch again. I stormed over to it and grabbed it off the stand, pinning it, down to one of the tables

and why?” I growled, to

one sent me,” the

throat.” What would an undead like

hand still on its neck, I reached over to a

skeleton could see it,

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

beings. Becoming an undead skeleton was a punishment brought about by angering a witch, not a blessing of eternal life like a vampire – although, some

think I’ll start with a leg,” I said, lowering the bone saw to the skeleton’s femur.

the skeleton cried out. “I swear no one sent me. I was attracted to the

the skeleton’s leg and furrowed my brows. “What

a scent,” the skeleton replied. “And a strong one at that. Strong enough to make me go a

she’s only a human,” I

“I

made me think that she was a bit out of the ordinary, but I hadn’t thought

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