My Hockey Alpha

Me? Why me?

Why would the star hockey player, every girl’s dream guy, the adonis Enzo Rivers, want to be with me?

My mind flashed back to our one night stand… I could almost still feel his hands on my body, and when he brushed my hair out of my face right now, my body shivered at his touch. He had been so gentle and loving when we had sex. Was he like that with all of the girls, or was it an act?

It had to be an act. An alarm was going off inside of me, saying “Don’t trust this playboy.” After years of being unable to find love, I couldn’t believe that his feelings could be genuine. My first love had been similar — the star quarterback of my high school — and look how that had turned out.

Never again.

“Listen, you got what you wanted,” I said, pulling away. “We slept together once. Don’t try to make me think that you, of all people, would actually want me again. Who put you up to this, huh? Lisa?”

Enzo frowned and took a step backward.

“No one put me up to this,” he said softly. “When we had sex, something was… different. Not at all like all of my other one night stands. I want to try it again and see what happens.”

“Oh, so I’m just an experiment to you,” I snapped. “A test to see if the Great Enzo Rivers has the capacity for feelings.”

“No, it’s not like th-”

“If it helps any, I only got with you out of impulse,” I said, somewhat surprised by the venom in my voice. “I was having a bad night, and had just been cheated on. I would never sleep with a player like you under any other circumstances. Besides, I’m not willing to let whatever tricks you’re trying to play on me get in the way of my studies.”

his arms across his chest again. “You seemed to like it last night,” he said.

like that. I looked down at my feet and stuck my

it,”

by the way… You look beautiful tonight.” He put his hand under my chin and lifted it so I looked into his eyes. From this close, I could see that his pupils were dilated and the iris around them had shifted from soft brown to a subtle red color. I gasped and stepped away just before he

with an expression on his face

if what happened last night was the one and only time,” I said. “Please stop playing with me like this. I don’t want to be hunted down by the hundreds of

still appeared different… like a predator. There was something inside of him, something wild, but I couldn’t

it was, I wanted no part of

out a heavy sigh and stuck his hands in his pockets. “Alright,” he said. “But if

say anything else. I hesitated for a moment while part of me wanted to run far away and another part of me wanted to have sex with him again, but then the part of me that wanted to flee took over. I turned on my heel and ran around the cabin and back toward the fire, where everyone was still dancing —

the fire, I looked over my shoulder toward Enzo, who was still out of sight. Just then, I bumped into something solid and fell to the ground — well, I nearly fell to the ground, but a pair of

Enzo.

sat in front of me with her perky butt on the ground, scowling

she growled,

myself away from Enzo’s grip and

raising

at Enzo then, folding her arms across her chest while her pretty face turned bright red. “Babe! I can’t believe you caught her and

“Don’t call me babe.”

threw me one last glance and walked back to the

around Lisa to go back to the party, but she grabbed my arm and stopped me, her nails digging