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.”

say anything Before I

of

out loud. “She is a human,

so long before he reanimated again.

looked down and cringed when I saw Nina’s phone on the floor, its screen cracked now. “Shit…” I whispered, stooping to pick it up. I’d have to

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

why?” I growled, to which the bewitched skeleton only

one sent me,” the

replied, tightening my grip around the skeleton’s throat.” What would an undead

only option was to force an answer out of it. With my hand still on its neck, I reached over to a table next to me and grabbed

the skeleton

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

supernatural beings. Becoming an undead skeleton was

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

swear no one sent me. I was attracted to the

leg and furrowed

replied. “And a strong one at that. Strong enough to make me go

she’s only a human,” I

it said. “I don’t know what

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

The Novel will be updated daily. Come back and continue reading tomorrow, everyone!

Comments ()

0/255