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

me before reaching into his bag and pulling out a manila folder He handed it to me with a serious

It contained Ronan’s physical records — all showing incredibly superior strength and speed

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

I studied Ronan’s impressive physical skills. Was Ronan truly human, or

nodded. “But why is the question,” he whispered. “Is the Blizzard Tournament really

could say anything else, James and I

us and giggling. One of them was coming toward me… and it was

she come out of hiding?

get up in my face. It was oddly similar to how she had acted the night she attacked me. Didn’t Enzo claim that she had been

thrown directly into my face. I stood there with my mouth hanging open in surprise as the coffee seeped through my clothes, burned my eyes, and

“I know you saw Enzo walking me home that night and just couldn’t stand it, so you just had to

Lisa turned on

wanted to run away and hide Without another word, I dropped Ronan’s file and ran back to my dorm with the intention

back to my apartment, I burst inside and ran into my room, locking the door behind me while a confused Lori and Jessica stood in

I shouted when they knocked on my door. I heard concerned muttering on the other side of the door,

taken of

well as the moment when Lisa threw her coffee