My Hockey Alpha

Enzo

Luke frowned and shook his head. “No… I thought she was with you.”

I felt my heart sink. Had something horrible happened to Nina, or had she gotten away somehow? If Tiffany was dead… What if Nina was dead, too?

“I have to find her,” I said as I tried to keep my head clear despite my pounding heart. “Sh-She could be hurt—”

Suddenly, Lisa chuckled. “She’s not hurt,” she snarled. I felt my hands curl up into fists as I slowly turned to face Lisa, who was still being held by Matt and Bryce, and I stormed up to her and grabbed her around the neck.

“Where is she?” I growled. “What did you do with her?”

“It’s not necessarily what I did with her,” she said, grinning slyly. “I was just a little helper. Edward, on the other hand…”

My eyes widened. “Edward took her?”

Lisa nodded slowly. “You’re too late, though. He’s in the werewolf realm. She’s probably with The Sister now, anyway.” She looked so pleased with herself it made me want to throttle her, but I didn’t. I controlled myself and released my grip around her neck, stepping back and passing a hand over my face. I would have to find a way to open a portal, but… I didn’t know how. I’d never done it before.

“Luke,” I said suddenly, spinning to face him. “Can you open a portal?”

He stood, pursing his lips. “I can. It’ll sap a lot of my energy, and it’ll probably turn me back into a skeleton, but… I’ll do anything for Nina.”

over my shoulder to the others. “Make

the wriggling Lisa like she was nothing in his arms.

Luke finished opening

…

out the other side, we were still standing in the abandoned barn, but only without the others here. Luke came with me, closing the portal behind us. When I looked over at him, I saw that he had returned to his old skeletal self — which was a

sorry,” I said.

worry about it. Finding Nina

where I’d last seen Nina, I was able to pick up her faint scent. It was much stronger now, which was strange, but it didn’t matter; all that mattered was that I would find her soon, and would hopefully find her before it was too late. I needed to find this ‘Sister’ too and be done

about this scent. I couldn’t quite place my finger on it, but I decided to keep going anyway. Soon enough I was bound to find some sort of clue as to Nina’s location. We came to the spot

and put his bony finger to where his lips would normally be, then fell silent. I stopped as

It wasn’t Nina, but rather… It was Edward. He stepped out of the bushes, silent as a

moment as I pictured myself charging at him and killing him for everything horrible he’d done, but I restrained myself because he was the only link I had right now to

she?” I

an eyebrow.

with me, asshole,” I growled.

fists as I watched his human form fade away, replaced with the big, black wolf form from my nightmares. As

in front of me. “I’ll handle him. Just go

him on your own,” I said. “He’ll