My Hockey Alpha

Nina

“That’s weird,” I said under my breath, peeling away the bandages the rest of the way while Jessica and Lori watched with confused expressions on their faces.

Where my knee had been completely torn up the night before, it was now perfectly fine… As though I had never been injured at all. I furrowed my brow and poked the area where I had been injured, but felt nothing out of the ordinary. Had the blood just made it appear worse than it really was? No… I remembered clearly that the skin was broken. I even had a gaping hole in the knee of my jeans to prove it.

Suddenly, my phone started buzzing and made all of us jump. I picked it up to see James’ number on my screen, momentarily making me forget about the strange occurrence with my knee.

“Hello?” I said, holding the phone up to my ear.

“Hey,” James said, sounding a bit excitable. “I have something to show you. Meet me on the quad in fifteen?”

“Uh, sure,” I replied.

I was still holding the bloody gauze in my hand when I hung up, and Lori and Jessica were still staring at me. This was definitely something I would have to talk to Enzo about later… Maybe he had simply healed my knee when I fell asleep. That was the only reasonable explanation, but it certainly wasn’t an explanation that I could give my roommates.

“I guess it just wasn’t as bad as it looked,” I said, tossing the bandage in the trash and walking back to my room as nonchalantly as I could while Jessica and Lori stared after me confusedly .

I met James at the quad fifteen minutes

with a serious look on his face. “Check this out,” he said quietly, glancing over his shoulder as if someone would be listening in

Ronan’s physical records — all showing incredibly superior

a CEO of a company that’s in competition with Enzo’s father’s company,” James said, pointing at the newspaper clippings.

I said out loud, while another possibility floated through my mind as I studied Ronan’s impressive physical skills. Was Ronan

the question,” he whispered. “Is the Blizzard Tournament really so important that two CEOS would plant their insanely talented sons

either of us could say anything else, James and I

James and I both looked up to see a gaggle of girls staring at us and giggling. One of them was coming toward me…

out of hiding? And why now,

me, brushing past James to get up in my face. It was oddly similar to how she had acted the night she attacked me.

— but I was promptly interrupted by a lukewarm cup of coffee being thrown directly into my face. I stood there with my mouth hanging open in surprise as the coffee

the ground. “I know you saw Enzo walking me home that night and just couldn’t stand it,

on her heel with a hmph and

oka–“James started to say, but I just wanted to run away and hide Without another word, I dropped Ronan’s file and ran back to my dorm with the intention of staying in there until

it back to my apartment, I burst inside and ran into my room,

door. I heard concerned muttering on the other side of the door, but I didn’t care, all I wanted was to

had been taken of me

when Lisa threw her coffee in my face. Had Lisa hired