My Hockey Alpha

Chapter 54: No Coincidences

Nina

Jessica, Lori and I had begun setting up camp not far from where the businessman had been murdered when I heard twigs and leaves crunching in the forest.

Someone was coming.

“Oh my god,” Jessica complained as she fiddled with her tent poles, “this is impossible! Lori, I need help!”

“Guys,” I said, but they didn’t hear me.

“I just helped you two minutes ago,’ Lori said, standing and walking over to Jessica with her hands on her hips while Jessica whined.

“Shh!” I said, which made them finally go quiet. “Do you hear that?”

My heart raced as I listened to the footsteps. They were getting louder, and definitely headed directly for our camp. I glanced over at my tent, which had the shotgun inside- 11 I could just get over there before anything bad happened.

“Hello?” a male voice called out from the woods.

I knew that voice anywhere; it was Enzo.

And hearing it didn’t make me any less terrified.

He stepped out into the clearing, holding a bundle of firewood with a backpack on his back and a big, stupid grin on his face.

“Oh, hey!” he said, as if he hadn’t followed us out here. I knew I should’ve stopped Luke! “Fancy seeing. you ladies here!”

“What a surprise!” Jessica said, practically squealing with delight. Despite what she had said in the cafeteria the other day about Enzo, she couldn’t hide her fangirl nature around him.

to get closer to the shotgun in case Enzo suddenly decided that we knew too much

I was about to reach into the tent for the shotgun, his

guys should camp with us!” Jessica

Lori growled,

fun. You’d be okay with it, right,

nonchalance toward him in the cafeteria the other day made me wonder now if he was using some sort of werewolf powers to make Jessica say these things… And when I saw

manipulating Jessica into

I said, knowing that there was no way out now. Regardless of what I said, he

response, then looked

our fire pit and setting down the firewood he had so nonchalantly collected on his way to stalk me. “I’ll just go get Matt

As in…

sort of game was

could ask,

toward me, her

I shrugged in return. There

know

Lori growled, stomping back over to her tent and continuing to set it up while she grumbled

it wasn’t Jessica’s

dead in the

returned; and, much to my dismay,

they entered the clearing with their things. I blushed, mumbling a quiet “Hey”, and quickly

over to an empty spot next to Lori’s tent, unaware that he would be barking up the wrong tree if he tried to get with

Enzo could learn from.

walked over to me while I pretended to be

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