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.

at the same time, there were two other things stopping me. For starters, Edward probably took off through one of those portals, and the police 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

of this to my friends, so I just nodded as the

arrived, there were

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

ignoring the snide comments from the protesters as we passed. All I could do at this point was ignore them and do my best not to

my friends to go stand at my post. Tiffany had been too busy in the infirmary lately with the cold and flu season upon us to join me at any of the games recently, but had entrusted

at the stands, I could see that some of this increase in traffic was actually just more protesters coming in to hold up big anti-werewolf banners for the duration of the game. The red-haired girl was at the forefront of

out at the back of the line. When he came out, the red-haired girl and her posse

next to Enzo in the center of the rink. The crowd started to quiet down

their solidarity with Enzo at the center of the line. They stared quietly at the protesters until the protesters finally got escorted out

all gone. I couldn’t help but smile, and as I looked back at the

peace

announcer called out the other team. I watched, biting my fingernails, as the other team filed out onto the ice and got into position. The captain also came out

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

Enzo to look shocked or uncomfortable, but much

He was smirking.

other captain held back, letting his team do most of the work, but Enzo and Matt were fast. They flicked the puck expertly back and forth between the two of them, almost

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 happened. I mean, he

drinking the Mad Wolf serum, but he’s letting Matt

frowned, furrowing my brow at Justin’s sudden choice of