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.

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 with

it.” He looked over at me just as I was about to reach into the tent

camp with us!” Jessica

growled,

fun. You’d be okay with it,

to forget all of our morals, but her 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 how focused his eyes were on hers, and how

manipulating Jessica into inviting him

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

flashed another grin at my response, then looked up at the

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

in… Graduate student

game was

could

toward me, her eyes

which I shrugged in return. There was no use discussing

know what

boy crazy, that’s what it is,’ Lori growled, stomping back over to

said, knowing that it wasn’t

dead in the morning, I thought

to

Nina,” James said as they entered the clearing with their things. I blushed, mumbling a quiet “Hey”, and quickly looked away as I felt both James and Enzo’s eyes on

call this spot,” Matt 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

Enzo could learn from.

I pretended

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