My Hockey Alpha

Nina

When I got home, Jessica and Lori were both furious.

“Where were you!” Jessica yelled as soon as I walked in the door. I didn’t even have a chance to hang my jacket up.

“You totally ditched us,” Lori chimed in, folding her arms across her chest. ” We thought you got kidnapped or something. Then that freak typhoon hit and you still weren’t answering your phone.”

“Okay, mom and dad,” I said, tossing my bag down on the counter. “I’m sorry. Just, you know… I was lonely, and there was a cute guy.”

Jessica let out a big sigh. “Well, you could’ve at least let us know you were leaving,” she said. “But I know with everything going on lately, stuff like that happens.”

Meanwhile, Lori didn’t seem convinced at all. She had always been more intuitive than Jessica and could always see through a lie, but she didn’t say anything this time. Still, seeing her hurt expression made me feel awful for lying and I couldn’t let myself walk away like this.

I took a deep breath. “Actually,” I said, looking at my feet, “that’s not what happened. I did something really stupid, and honestly I’m lucky that it didn’t turn out worse than it did.”

Jessica and Lori were silent. When I looked up at them, they both looked concerned and confused. I sighed and continued.

“I didn’t watch my drink at the bar and I got drugged.”

Jessica gasped and clamped her hand over her mouth, her eyes wide. Lori, without a word, ran over to me and threw her arms around me.

felt like I was going to cry until I couldn’t hold it

away a bit to look at me. The smudged makeup under her eyes from the night before made her expression even

of mine saw what was happening and

feel as bad not telling them that I was actually picked up by a talking skeleton and carried to a werewolf’s apartment,

smiled up at me through her tears. “I’m glad

I started to wonder if they were avoiding me, or if… They were doing something to the guy who tried to

just finished up work with Tiffany and was heading home. We had spent the day in her office treating students, since there was a flu outbreak on campus. Needless to say, after

was cool and brisk, a welcome relief after being cooped up in an office all day, and the campus was quiet. I enjoyed nights like this more than anything; feeling the cool autumn breeze on my skin and hearing the leaves crunch under

something else in store for me,

stopped in my tracks as she approached. She looked strung out on something, storming toward me with her fists balled up at her sides and her hair a mess. She was wearing her skimpy

I said nervously with a little wave when I realized that she was indeed headed

for a second before her hand flew forward

yelped, trying to wrench my hair free from her surprisingly

slut!” she yelled, yanking my hair so hard that tears came to

I said, but she didn’t seem to care. She clearly just

and notebooks falling out of my bag and slamming on the concrete. I groaned and attempted to stand, but she

flying out of her

and throttled me, hitting my head on the sidewalk. I grabbed her wrists and attempted to stop her, but it was no

grip tightened around my throat. I couldn’t

flailed my arms as I tried to get her off of me, but the longer she choked me, the weaker I