#Chapter 23 Monster

#Chapter 23: Monster

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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.

#Chapter 23 Monster

“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

stooping to look her

the eyes.

hand and placed it on my chest, right over my heart so she could feel

I’m a monster, so be it,” I said. “But I won’t stop watching you, because someone — or something

gears turning in her head. She shuddered again, but

stop her, she

room.

afraid of

out loud. “She is

human, after all.”

he reanimated again. Some witch must have put a spell on this skeleton, but for

crunched under my foot. 1 looked down and cringed when I saw Nina’s phone on the floor, its screen cracked now. “Shit…” I whispered, stooping to pick it

again. I stormed over to it and grabbed it off the

to one of the tables by its

and

the

chuckled.

one sent me,” the skeleton

the skeleton’s throat.” What would an undead like yourself want with an ordinary

didn’t respond, but I had to know the truth. My only option was to force an answer out of it. With my hand still on its neck, I reached over to a table next to me and grabbed

brandished the bone saw so the skeleton

gliding it along the skeleton’s ribs. ” Your arm? Or maybe

start with a leg.”

to most

some would argue that vampires

leg,” I said, lowering the bone saw to the skeleton’s femur.

Wait!” the skeleton cried out. “I swear no one sent me. I was attracted to the girl’s

skeleton’s leg and

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