My Hockey Alpha

 Chapter 105 Healing Touch

Nina

“My name is Nina Harper. I’m a student at Mountainview University. Edward is a liar, and werewolves are real. Enzo is a good man, and he came to save me…”

As I whispered this mantra to myself, I finally, slowly but surely, made my way to Enzo’s door. I pulled the paper out of my hand and uncrumpled it, straining my blurry eyes to read the numbers.

On the paper, there was a list of four different numbers.

“Seven… Three… Nine… Zero.”

I punched the first number into the door and bit my lip, watching with bated breath and letting out a disappointed sigh when the light blinked red on the keypad. I glanced both ways over my shoulder again, groaning quietly as searing pain overtook my injured neck, before I tried the next number.

“Eight… One… Two… Five.”

I waited again. The keypad blinked red again.

It had to be one of these numbers, right?

“Five… Four…. Six… Nine.”

As the light on the keypad blinked red at me for the third time, it almost felt as though it was mocking me this time, as if to say that I was a blundering idiot for thinking that Edward actually had the real codes to our prison cells written on a scrap of paper in his pocket. Surely Edward was too smart to do something as simple as that.

Still, there was one more code on the paper. I took a deep breath, glancing over my shoulders again with the fear of seeing Edward sprinting down the hallway to tackle me constantly looking in my mind, before I punched in the last code.

“Eight… Nine… Zero… Two.”

I waited for an eternity. My breath was caught in my throat, my fingers crossed in the hopes

again, the light on the keypad

“Fuck!”

ignoring the searing sensation in my fists as the concrete scraped up my knuckles. These codes were the only hope I had to get Enzo and I out of here, and none of them worked. There was no doubt in my mind that Edward was watching all of this on a hidden camera, laughing to himself as he watched my futile struggle to escape. Surely, any minute now, he would return and drag me back to my cell, where he would force the final dose of medicine down my

the pain I would feel when Edward returned — and it

ever coming to this school to begin with. Maybe, if I

as I heard Cora’s voice echo in my head

“Check again…”

loud. “What do you

She didn’t answer.

of the floor. I held it up close to my

once more. Another tear rolled down my cheek. I went to toss the paper back

I gripped the paper tightly, my brow furrowed, as I pushed myself back

“Seven… Two… Four… Nine.”

a lump forming in my throat. No, I thought

But it was.

blink red this time; instead, it flashed a bright, beautiful green. I clapped a hand over my mouth, suppressing a scream of delight as a smile stretched across my face. The door

when I

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