My Hockey Alpha

Nina

Enzo and I spun on the ice and laughed together until we became so dizzy that we spun out of control and fell down. This only made us laugh harder, and as I regained my composure, I pushed myself up onto my palms and couldn’t help but smile down at Enzo.

He smiled back up at me as well. For a split second, everything felt okay, and it felt as though both of us temporarily forgot about his mate.

But that split second quickly ended. Our smiles faded. Enzo cleared his throat, then helped me stand up and placed me back on the carpet outside the rink.

“Thank you,” he said, averting his gaze to the ice. “I feel a lot better now.”

I swallowed the lump in my throat and nodded. “Any time,” I replied. “I’ll be here to help as much as I can until you get your abilities back.”

…

The following night, it was time for the next game in the tournament. It was a frigid Saturday night, and was even forecasted to snow a little. Lori and Jessica were waiting for me when I emerged, and we walked to the arena together.

“Have you thought about what we suggested?” Lori asked, her breath coming out in little white clouds in the cold air as we walked.

I shrugged. “A little, I guess. I just don’t know if I can go down there.”

“What about Tiffany or someone else?” Jessica chimed in. “You said there’s an entrance to the tunnels in her supply closet?”

I nodded, but then shook my head in disagreement. “I don’t wanna make her go down there. It’s horrible down there… I don’t want anyone to go without reason.”

“I think that finding evidence of Edward’s crimes is reason enough,” Lori said sternly.

would never find him anyway — even if they did find him, I highly doubted they could keep him locked up for long before he would find a way to escape. Second, while I trusted Tiffany, she did have an extensive history with Edward. I knew that she would never do anything to help him, but at the same time, I couldn’t be entirely sure that she would be willing to turn her old friend and someone she loved dearly in to the police despite his crimes. There was a good chance that she would try to protect

didn’t have the energy to explain all of this to my friends, so I just nodded as

there were

rubbing her hands together. “They’re dedicated, doing this

protesters as we passed. All I could do at this point was ignore them and do my

had been too busy in the infirmary lately with the cold and flu season upon us to

protesters coming in to hold up big anti-werewolf banners for the duration of the game.

began to call out our team one by one, ending with Enzo coming out at the back of the line. When he came out, the red-haired girl

of the rink. The crowd started to quiet down aside from the protesters’ booing. I watched as the team slowly began to join hands, then raised their hands

gasp escaped my lips as I watched. They stayed like that for some time, just silently showing their solidarity with Enzo at the center of the line. They stared quietly

once they were all gone. I couldn’t help but smile, and as I looked back at the team, I met Enzo’s eyes from

peace

other team. I watched, biting my fingernails, as the other team filed out onto the

muscular, but this guy was somehow even bigger and broader. He skated out to his position like a human tank, his cold eyes fixed on Enzo as though Enzo was nothing but a piece of meat sitting on a

to look shocked or uncomfortable,

He was smirking.

team do most of the work, but Enzo and Matt were fast. They flicked the puck expertly back and forth between the two of

a familiar voice suddenly said from behind me. I looked over my shoulder to see Justin approaching with his hands

looking back out at the game. “I don’t know what

team for drinking the Mad Wolf serum, but he’s letting

brow at