My Hockey Alpha novel Chapter 28

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.”

Sure enough, as he pressed his hands on my leg, the pain started to fade. The throbbing in my head faded as well, and soon enough I felt like I hadn’t fallen down a ravine at all; aside from the mud all over my body and my clothes.

“There was another monster out there,” I said quietly, looking down at my lap.

Enzo looked up at me with worry in his soft brown eyes. “Where?”

“In the woods,” I replied. “I was running from your skeleton bodyguard and fell down a ravine. He showed up and fought it off. Said it was a… rogue?”

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

“Luke?” I asked. “You gave it a name?”

With a shrug, Enzo stood and paced over to my bed.

“I don’t know what it is exactly, but something about you is drawing these creatures to the campus,” Enzo said. “It’ll only get worse from here, and I can’t always be around to keep watch over you.”

“Yeah, well,” I said, standing, “I can take care of myself. Tell your skeleton bodyguard to leave me the fuck alone.”