My Hockey Alpha

Nina

“James… Run.”

“What?” he said. “I’m not gonna leave you out here.”

I cocked my shotgun as the yellow eyes continued to stare at me from the darkness, accompanied by the sound of a deep, horrifying growl.

“You have to run, James,” I said, raising the barrel of the gun to point it at the creature in the forest. “Get Enzo.”

James grabbed my arm. “C’mon,” he begged. “It’s not safe!”

“Go NOW!” I yelled, spinning around and pointing the gun at him, tears in my eyes. James threw his hands up in surrender and backed away, then turned on his heel and ran off toward the camp.

I turned back toward the creature, which was now emerging from the woods; it was a werewolf.

Not a rogue like the one I saw that night when I was running from Luke, though. Instead of some mangy, mutt- looking creature that appeared half human, this one was a huge, brown wolf that towered several feet over me. Its paws were bigger than my head, and the teeth that it bared were at least five or six times as big as the one that K had shown me around his neck in the coffee shop.

Had he even truly shown me a werewolf tooth, or was it all a lie?

My hands shook as I pointed the gun at the werewolf.

“Stay back!” I yelled, backing away. It only continued to approach me, saliva dripping from its massive mouth.

Suddenly, the giant wolf pounced.

Instinct took over. I shot the gun, the recoil slamming me hard in the shoulder and sending me to the ground in agony. The wolf yelped in pain; I just barely managed to roll out of the way before it fell on top of me, blood pooling on the ground beneath it.

It was dead.

Or, so I thought.

paws turning into

and scrambled to my feet, backing away. He groaned and rolled onto his back, clutching his chest. I watched in horror as the

walking toward me as if he hadn’t just Chapter be Portal had a silver bullet shot straight into his chest. I kept the muzzle of the gun focused on him, but as he approached me,

grabbed the barrel of the gun, yanking it out of my hands with

more than one of

the woods. I tried to fight, but he was so much stronger than me even in his human form that I felt helpless. All I could do was scream and

he was pushing on a wall and started whispering some strange

that I couldn’t explain. It was small at first, but grew larger and larger;

take me?” I cried, tears

in his eyes. “Unfortunately, I was asked to bring you back in one piece,” he replied, hoisting me

put one foot in the

to another dimension for all I knew, and I had no idea what was going to

Except…

shot the gun, instinct kicked in

K

out, dropping me as blood gushed out of his neck. I spat out a wad of blood and flesh on the ground, scrambling to my feet and

started

to the ground. I hit my head on my way down and my vision blurred, but I kicked and clawed with all

off of her, asshole!” Enzo’s

him running toward me. With the moon shining above him, he looked like a dark angel coming to my rescue. I reached my hand

him with all his might and