My Hockey Alpha

Chapter 57: The Cumb

I was awoken by the gunshot just seconds before James came running back to camp.

“Enzo!” he yelled. “Enzo! Nina’s in trouble! There’s something out there!”

I didn’t need to hear any more. I quickly unzipped my tent and ran out, having kept my clothes and shoes on in case of an emergency. Unfortunately, the other campers were also awoken by the gunshot, and were already coming out of their tents with panicked looks on their faces.

“What’s happening?” Jessica asked, rubbing the sleep from her eyes.

I cursed to myself as I realized that I would have to wipe all of their memories of this night. I wasn’t nearly as good at it as Edward, but I had no choice. I couldn’t have them following me out into the woods and potentially seeing a shifter, or worse; I couldn’t have them getting killed.

“Get back in your tents and go to sleep,” I said as I borrowed Fio’s power to daze the group all at once.

They all stopped moving in unison, their eyes widening as they began

blinking slowly. I hadn’t used this ability in so long that I had forgotten how easy it was to daze humans; the fact that Nina couldn’t be dazed, even by Edward, was solid proof that she couldn’t possibly be entirely human.

“This was all just a dream,” I said.

The group collectively nodded. James shuffled back to his tent in a daze and climbed inside while everyone else slowly zipped their tents back up. Once I was certain that they were under my spell, I cursed to myself once again and turned on my heel, sprinting into the woods and using Fio to help me track where Nina was.

I found her just in time. She was fighting with all of her might against a man who I couldn’t identify as he tried to drag her through an open portal to the Lycan realm.

“Get off of her, asshole!” I yelled, pushing myself to run even faster. He was fully through the portal now aside from his arm, which was dragging Nina by the ankle. When she saw me, she reached for me, her teary eyes begging for help as her foot started to disappear inside the rapidly-closing portal…

I leaped forward and grabbed her by the hand, yanking with all my might and freeing her from the stranger’s grip.

She fell on top of me in a sobbing heap while the portal finished closing.

window of my own tent to make sure she was okay. I had put a protective barrier around the camp when I first got here that would keep out any unwanted visitors, but I worried that Nina would wake up frightened in the middle

out of her tent in the morning, she didn’t look like she slept

as she came

“Me too,” Jessica replied.

a grin. I’d observed him on enough overnight hockey

boots on. “I’m gonna go collect some firewood

so I followed her while everyone else was still rubbing the sleep from their eyes. She didn’t seem to mind the company; surely, after what happened the night before,

you for last night,” she said quietly once we were far enough away from the

I’d always protect you, didn’t I?”

ground.

wood in silence for a minute, but I had burning questions that

knew that guy, didn’t you?” I

“I did. I didn’t know he was a werewolf. He lied to me… serves me right for meeting strangers on

Luke said she met up with in the coffee shop

I asked, calming my nerves so that I wouldn’t reprimand Nina for being

research and found this guy on a forum he called himself K — who claimed to have proof that werewolves exist. I know it was stupid, but I was desperate, so I met up with him. He claimed to be a werewolf hunter, and

“Like what?”

all monsters. But I know now that he was the very monster

further. Setting down my bundle of wood, I walked up to her and took the wood from her hands, then pulled her into a tight hug. Much

away from me and wiping her teary eyes with her

let out a sigh. “Nina, we’re not back together,” I replied. “When will you

saw you that

I said, “but if you’ll just let me explain everything,

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