NovelAppChapter 0338 Matt nodded silently. I could see him furrowing his brow, like he was thinking hard, focusing on one thing.
Without a wolf, I wondered what Luke thought of when he needed to open a portal.
Several long, palpable seconds passed.
Matt stayed firmly focused on the air in front of him, his hand moving continuously in that same counter- clockwise motion. Lori and Jessica tightened their grips on my hand, and the three of us barely even breathed as we watched. | But finally, Matt dropped his hand back to his side and shook his head solemnly.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇt“I'can’t do it,” he said quietly, turning
back to face the rest of us. “I'm sorry. I don’t think I have that ability.” I felt my heart sink. My friends all gave me an apologetic look, but I only felt anger bubbling up inside of me.
“Let me try,” I said, dropping Lori and Jessica’s hands and storming into the center of the clearing. “Get out of the way.” Matt jumped out of my way. The rest of my friends stared at me in shock. I could practically feel the pity emanating off of them; they knew that it wasn’t going to work. But I had to try. I couldn’t live with myself if I didn’t.
“But, Nina,” Luke said, walking up to me, “your wolf—" “I'don’t care.” I knew that my wolf had
gone dormant again. It didn’t matter to me; I still needed to try. “Just show me how.” Luke let out a sigh. I got into the position that he showed Matt, waiting for Luke’s instructions. Without a word, he finally reached out and adjusted my arm and my hand.
I shut my eyes then and pictured something that gave me strength. I pictured... Enzo. And all of my other friends. I pictured the night that Luke first saved me from the rogue. I pictured Lori and Jessica’s smiling faces around the campfire. I pictured Matt and Enzo carrying us through the woods in their wolf forms. All of those things gave me strength.
As I pictured all of these things, over and over again, I moved my hand in the
motion that Luke demonstrated.
focused hard, harder than I ever thought I could. I pictured Tiffany, and | how warm her hugs were. I pictured my mom... And my brother.
[didn’t know how long I did this for. I was so focused, that it could have been an eternity. I only stopped and opened my eyes when I felt Luke’s hand on my arm, and I opened my eyes to see him slowly shaking his head.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmMy heart fell into the depths of my stomach again. I felt so heavy that I was certain that a hole would bore into the ground below me and I would sink into the center of the earth.
“I’m sorry, Nina,” Luke said quietly.
“Let’s go home. We'll come back tomorrow.” When I turned back to face my friends,
the tears in my eyes were so thick that they were nothing but shapeless blobs, But they were right; there was nothing | we could do now. We would have to wait until Selena’s hex wore off before we could get to Enzo, and we could only pray that he wasn’t too far gone — or even dead — by the time we got to him.
I nodded and allowed my friends to guide me away. My feet felt heavy as I walked, like my body was filled with bricks. Everything felt numb — even the feeling of my friends’ hands on my back as we began to walk away felt distant.
But then, I heard something. And so did they. We all stopped, our eyes widening, as the sound of something electric buzzed behind us.
I whipped around. My mouth dropped open to see that a portal was opening there, where I had been standing before.
My friends and I all stared at each other, each of us equally as shocked; but the portal was already beginning to close, and we didn’t have time to stand there frozen in our places.
And so, with a chorus of amazed laughter, the five of us all grabbed each other’s hands and leaped into the portal.
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