My Hockey Alpha

Nina

I woke up to the sound of thunder and howling wind in a dark bedroom that was not my own.

Where was I?

I slowly sat up, peering through the cracked door that led to another room. I could make out the silhouette of a man on the couch. He was watching a scary movie on the TV.

It sounded like there was a hellish storm outside, but I was willing to go out there if it meant getting away from the man who drugged me.

I stood as slowly and quietly as I could, realizing now that I was only dressed in an oversized men’s t-shirt and my clothes were nowhere to be found. Did this lunatic have his way with me already? I shuddered at the thought, tears pricking at the backs of my eyes as I scanned the room for some sort of weapon. Maybe if I could sneak up on him and hit him over the head, it would knock him out long enough for me to grab my things and get the hell out of here.

Bingo! There was an umbrella hanging on the back of the door. It would take a lot of force, but I could do it. Surprisingly, I felt strong despite the drugs in my system.

I grabbed the umbrella off the door and slowly creaked the door open, stepping forward to strike….

He suddenly whipped his head around. I stood frozen like a deer in headlights with the umbrella poised over my head to hit him.

It was Enzo.

“Jesus!” he said, jumping up from the couch. “How are you even up right now?”

Enzo drugged me?

“You asshole!” I yelled, circling around the couch with the umbrella still ready to strike him. “You drugged me!” Enzo backed away, knocking into a

and toppling it over with a crash. “I didn’t drug you,” he said, but I didn’t believe him. K was right.

and run. Hell, I didn’t even care about that anymore. I just needed to get out. I turned on my heel and ran for the door,

he said, catching up to me and placing his hand on the door just as I was about to

I furrowed my brow, straining to remember what happened before

the floor. “You know, your skeleton bodyguard. He found you

but when I looked up at Enzo, his face

sudden,

was going to pass out from all of the exertion. I stumbled backwards. Enzo leaped forward and caught me just before I fell, wrapping his strong arms around me and scooping me up

you,” he said, feeling my forehead with the back of his hand as a concerned expression drew across

at the bar… He carried me to a broom

finally felt like I could speak. “It

up in an unfamiliar place right after someone tried to

ear. “I need to go home,” I said, standing; but as I stood, another wave of dizziness came over me

to walk without collapsing,” Enzo replied, his words immediately followed by a sudden crash of thunder that made the

shuddered and pulled my knees up to my chest. Wordlessly, Enzo stood and grabbed a throw blanket from a chair. He came

after some banging around in there, he returned

there’s a vending machine down the hall if you want me to get you anything else. I’d order us a pizza, but…” He gestured to the window, through which we could see the treetops

couldn’t help

perfect,”

grinned and picked up one of the sandwiches, handing the plate to

“I usually just order food when I

bite of the sandwich, which was surprisingly delicious. As we ate and watched the scary movie on the TV, I found myself becoming more relaxed. We made fun of the dumb characters who kept getting themselves killed, and when the movie was over, we