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.

shift, massive legs and paws turning into human hands

onto his back, clutching his chest. I watched in horror as the hole where the bullet had buried itself in his chest began to

toward me as if he hadn’t just Chapter be Portal had a silver bullet shot straight into his chest. I kept the muzzle

gun, yanking it out of my

one of those to kill

the hair and started dragging me into the woods. I tried to fight, but he was so much stronger than

put his hand out flat in front of him like he was pushing on a wall and started

at first, but grew larger and larger; a big, swirling portal in front

me?” I cried, tears streaming down

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

foot in the

was it. I was going to be whisked away to another dimension for all I knew, and I had no idea what was going to happen to me. No one would be here in

Except…

shot the gun, instinct kicked in again,

around and bit K as hard as I could in the

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

portal started

yelled, grabbing my ankle and sending me to the ground. I hit my head on my way down and my vision blurred, but I kicked and clawed with all my might and somehow kept him from dragging me away long enough for Enzo to make

off of her,

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

grabbed my hand, pulling me toward him with all his might and releasing me from K’s strong