My Hockey Alpha

Chapter 28: Trust Issues

Nina

“What happened to you?” Enzo said as soon as I closed the door, rushing over to me and taking my shoulders in his hands and looking me over. I shrugged him off and limped across the room, where I kicked off my muddy shoes and sat down at my desk to rest my injured leg.

“You hired a talking skeleton to be my bodyguard?” I whispered, keeping my voice low so Lori couldn’t hear me.

Enzo folded his arms across his chest. ” Clearly you need protection, judging from your current state,” he replied.

I laughed. “I look like this because I was running from your bodyguard. You could’ve at least warned me.”

“Yeah, well maybe if you hadn’t run away from me last night and the night before, I would’ve had the chance,” Enzo growled.

I rolled my eyes and went to stand, but a sharp pain shot through my leg and I fell back down on my chair with a groan. Enzo rushed over to me and kneeled in front of me. I pulled away as he went to put his hands on my leg and he looked up at me with an annoyed expression.

“Let me look at it,” he ordered.

I hesitantly stuck my leg out, wincing as he put his hands on it.

“It’s alright,” he whispered. “It’ll just take a moment.”

to fade. The throbbing in my head faded as well, and soon

there,” I said quietly,

worry in his soft brown

replied. “I was running from your skeleton bodyguard and fell down a ravine. He showed up and fought it off. Said it was

here? You’re extremely lucky that Luke was

asked. “You

shrug, Enzo stood and paced

Enzo said. ” It’ll only get worse from here, and I can’t

care of myself. Tell your skeleton bodyguard to leave me

suddenly whipped around and glared at me, his brown eyes now burning the bright red color that I had become so familiar with. “Why

Enzo’s

down on

he stormed out and left me

and going after him, but he was already gone. Lori was still sitting at the kitchen counter, her mouth full of cereal, and she looked at me with a puzzled expression on

that all about?” she

nothing,” I replied. “Just talking about class,

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