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.

and paws turning into human hands and arms and legs, its fur

backing away. He groaned and rolled onto his back, clutching his chest. I watched in horror

bullet shot straight into his chest. I kept the muzzle of the gun focused on him, but as he approached me, I went into too

the gun, yanking it out of my hands

gonna take more than one

to fight, but he was so much stronger than me even in his human form that I felt helpless. All I

hand out flat in front of him like he was pushing on a wall and started whispering some strange

explain. It was small at first, but grew larger and larger; a big, swirling

me?” I cried, tears streaming

“Unfortunately, I was asked to bring you back in one piece,” he replied, hoisting me kicking and screaming up onto his shoulder like 1 was nothing but

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…

gun, instinct

my head around and bit K as

me as blood gushed out of his neck. I spat out a

started to

my head on my way down and my vision blurred, but I kicked and clawed with all my might and somehow

off of her,

like a dark angel coming to my rescue. I reached my hand out toward him, sobbing as K continued to drag me toward the portal. I felt my

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