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.”

head faded as well, and soon enough I felt like I hadn’t fallen down a ravine at all; aside from the

was another monster out there,” I said quietly, looking down at

looked up at me with worry in his soft brown eyes.

and fell down a ravine. He showed up and fought it off. Said

sighed. “Rogues… What are they doing here? You’re extremely lucky that Luke was

asked. “You gave it a

shrug, Enzo stood and paced over to my

drawing these creatures to the campus,” Enzo

said, standing, “I can take care of myself. Tell your skeleton

that I had become so familiar with. “Why can’t you just accept that

apparently! So how do I know if I can really trust you?!” I shouted, then immediately regretted it when I saw a pained expression flash across Enzo’s face. He frowned, the red fading from his eyes, and reached into

he said, tossing them down on your bed.

stormed out and

I said, opening my bedroom door 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

she

replied. “Just talking about

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