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.

wolf began to shift, massive legs and paws turning into

clutching his chest. I watched in horror as

standing and walking toward me as if he hadn’t just Chapter be Portal had a silver bullet shot straight into his chest. I

out of my hands with ease and throwing it to the ground several feet away as

gonna take more than one

but he was so much stronger than me even in his human form that I felt helpless. All I could do was scream and hope that Enzo

flat in front of him like he was pushing on a wall and started whispering some strange incantation while I

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

to take me?” I cried, tears streaming down

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

put one foot

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

Except…

instinct kicked in when I shot the gun,

and bit K as hard as I

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

started to

my head on my way down and my vision blurred, but I kicked and

of her, asshole!” Enzo’s voice

toward me. With the moon shining above him, he looked 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 foot

leaped forward and grabbed my hand, pulling me toward him with all his might and releasing me