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.”

could practically see the gears turning in her head. She shuddered again, but didn’t say anything Before I had the chance to stop her, she ran out of the

of

I replied out loud. “She is a

to 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 skeleton, but for what purpose, I didn’t know. I

on the floor, its screen cracked now. “Shit…” I whispered, stooping to pick

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

why?” I growled, to

sent me,” the

the skeleton’s throat.” What would an undead

of it. With my hand still on its neck, I reached over to a table next to me and grabbed the first instrument I could think of: a

skeleton could see it, then began to lower

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

far stronger. Skeletons were the lowest form of the undead; without muscle or flesh, they were incredibly weak compared to most other supernatural beings. Becoming an undead skeleton was a punishment brought about by angering a witch, not a

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

out. “I swear no one

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

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

only a human,”

human,” it said. “I don’t know what she

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 didn’t

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