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.

toward my tent in silence, trying to get closer to the shotgun in case Enzo suddenly decided that we knew too much and that he’d need to kill us, just like he did

just as I was about to reach into the tent for the shotgun, his eyes flashing red for a split second as if to warn

camp

growled, glancing at

Jessica replied. “It’ll be fun. You’d be okay

dumb at the first sign of a hot guy to forget all of our morals, but her nonchalance toward him in the cafeteria the other day made me wonder now if

Jessica

now. Regardless of what I said, he would. find a way to

my response, then looked up at the

firewood he had so nonchalantly collected on his way to stalk me. “I’ll just go get Matt

As in…

of game was

I could

me, her

said, to which I shrugged in return. There was

sorry,” Jessica said. “I don’t know what came over me just

Lori growled, stomping back over to her tent and continuing to set

knowing that it wasn’t Jessica’s fault. “Maybe it

be dead in the morning, I thought to

much to my

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

said, walking 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 her. James picked a spot

Enzo could learn from.

walked over to me while I pretended to be fiddling

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