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.”

pressed his hands on my leg, the pain started to fade. The throbbing in my head faded as well, and soon enough I felt

I

worry in his soft brown eyes.

running from your skeleton bodyguard and fell down a ravine. He showed

are they doing here? You’re extremely lucky that

“You gave it

Enzo stood and

creatures to the campus,” Enzo said. ” It’ll only get worse from here, and I can’t always be around to keep watch over

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

the bright red color that I had become so familiar with. “Why can’t

monster, too, 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 his jacket pocket. He pulled out two things:

he said, tossing them down on your bed. “You’re

another word, he stormed

sitting at the

all about?” she said. “I heard something

I replied.

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