#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

to look her

the eyes.

placed it on my chest, right over my heart so she

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

but didn’t say anything Before I

she ran out of

room.

of us,”

replied out loud. “She

human, after all.”

the skeleton. The incantation I used on him would only last for so long before he reanimated again. Some witch must have put a spell on this skeleton, but for

foot. 1 looked down and cringed when I saw Nina’s phone on the floor, its screen

was starting to twitch again. I

of the tables by

and

which the bewitched

chuckled.

me,” the skeleton

replied, tightening my grip around the skeleton’s throat.” What would an undead like yourself want with

had to know the truth. My only option was to force an answer out of it. With my hand still on its

saw so the skeleton could see it, then began to

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

start with a leg.”

or flesh, they were incredibly weak compared to most other supernatural beings. Becoming an undead skeleton was a punishment brought about by angering a witch,

argue that vampires were

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

skeleton cried out. “I swear no one sent me.

skeleton’s leg and furrowed my brows.

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