My Hockey Alpha

Chapter 31: Pity Party

Nina

I knew sleeping with Enzo again would have been a mistake. He didn’t even care about me enough to stay for the entire duration. Clearly he got what he wanted and realized that I wasn’t worth his time, so he bailed. When I got dressed and left the cabin, I didn’t see him anywhere at the party; he must have run off.

I jumped down the stairs and started to walk back toward the party so I could find Jessica and Lori and tell them that I was going home, but stopped when I overheard two of Lisa’s friends talking.

“Have you seen Lisa?” one said.

“Yeah,” the other replied. “She walked into the woods a little while ago. I just saw Enzo go that way, too.”

“Ooh!” the first girl said excitedly. “Do you think they’re getting back together?”

The second girl giggled. “Obviously. Have you seen the way he’s been looking at her lately? Clearly he regrets messing around with that weirdo Nina and realizes that he’ll never do any better than Lisa.”

I didn’t want to stick around to hear any more as tears started to well up in my eyes. I just wanted to go home.

I ran down the trail that led back to campus. I kept running until I could no longer see or hear the people at the cabins. The waning moon was just a crescent in the sky, no longer illuminating the forest like it did the other night, so I pulled out my phone and turned on the flashlight so I could see.

Eventually, I heard footsteps behind me and whipped my flashlight around to see Luke approaching.

“I figured you’d follow me,” I said annoyedly, turning back in the direction I was going and continuing to walk.

“I couldn’t let you walk through the woods alone,” he replied. “There could be-”

“Werewolves, I know,” I interrupted.

Luke was silent for a moment before speaking again. “Not just werewolves. Other shifters, too.”

paused and pondered what he said; admittedly, it made me a bit curious. We walked in

I asked eventually, just wanting

There are low-tier shifters, which

you mean by

wake up in the morning –if they wake up– they won’t remember anything. Most don’t even

climb a small hill, then continued. “The next tier are those who can willingly shift into animals, but just regular animals. They still have

clever, and would sometimes disappear for days on end. My parents always said she was just exploring, but now I wondered if she was off somewhere

after that?” I

shift into much larger, more powerful versions of animals. It’s not just that they have the

“Like split personalities?”

the same time, and talk to each other telepathically. Usually, when a shifter of this caliber comes of

a spirit

“Exactly.”

a small clearing. From here, we could see the campus down

in the

are you? Are you a

silent for some time. He looked down at his feet. I couldn’t see his face, not that it would make a difference since he had no

live for all eternity. But not in a cool, sexy way, like a vampire. Just cursed to slowly rot

be dust, when these bones start to disintegrate in millions

but I was starting to feel genuinely bad for this strange talking

“You get used to it. That’s why I decided to hang out

reason, the skeleton’s words made me smile. It was strange to think that a talking skeleton

Eventually I started to feel better as we sat together on the hillside, and started to think to myself as I sobered up that maybe it was a good thing that my sex with Enzo got interrupted. It would have been a bad idea and I likely would have regretted it in the morning. Even now,

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