My Hockey Alpha

Nina

Enzo and the rest of us stared after Lewis and the dean in disbelief as they walked out of the conference room. Were they really not even going to try to help the surrounding towns? I could understand that Cynthia’s main concern was for her campus, but the Fullmoons were the ones who were at war with the Crescents, so I felt as though it should have been their responsibility to mitigate the damages. The excuse that ‘we figured it out, so the other towns could figure it out as well’ was just pathetic and it made my blood boil.

“What are we gonna do?” Matt asked once we were alone again with our new pack. “They’re really just gonna let all of those other people suffer?”

Enzo shook his head as he clenched his jaw so tightly I could see the muscles straining under his skin. He stood abruptly, pushing his chair back.

“We’ll figure something out,” he said. “Let’s meet up again tonight to talk about it. For now… We’re gonna help clean up our campus, because it’s obvious that the Fullmoons aren’t gonna be any help.”

I could tell that Enzo was furious that his father’s own Beta would just let other people suffer at the hands of the Crescents. Good, innocent people who had absolutely nothing to do with this stupid war. And it was all because of whatever power Mountainview had thanks to its purely coincidental location. To Lewis and the Fullmoons, Mountainview was the only town that mattered; everywhere else was just collateral.

Either way, we spent the afternoon doing what we promised and cleaning up our campus. Quite a few students volunteered to help as well, and we spent the day picking up debris that had been created by the Crescents. By late afternoon, the campus seemed mostly back to normal; some things, like doors and windows, would need to be repaired, but thankfully the damage wasn’t too bad.

was the infirmary. Going in there only made me think about Tiffany, whose body still wasn’t recovered. I wasn’t sure what the Crescents did to her body after they dragged her away, but at this point, I didn’t want to see it anyway. Days of being left out

decided to save the infirmary for another

day, Enzo and I returned to the dorm to rest for a few hours. We planned to have a meeting with the New Peacekeepers that evening, but we were both so

bed, however, I couldn’t get the thought of Selena and Enzo’s

up on my elbow and looking down at him. “Can

distinct amount of pain behind them, I

think that means

time. His eyes stared thoughtfully up at the ceiling, his jaw clenching and unclenching as he thought about what I said. I think that we both knew what he was thinking: that Selena must have done something to his father. He told me before that he didn’t think that she had the capacity to kill, but I didn’t know how much I actually believed that. And even if she didn’t kill Enzo’s father, she still may have done something horrible to him to keep him quiet about my existence to the

And I hate to admit this, but… We need him. I think Lewis is letting the power

down at our intertwined hands. His fingers were cool and rough from years of playing hockey. I turned his hand over to inspect his

you going to go back for

to choke up because deep down, I knew the answer. Enzo would have to go back to rescue his father. Not only did he need to save his father for his pack’s sake, but he also had to bring him back to save our neighboring towns from the Crescents. There was still no telling how much destruction had been caused by the Crescents’ hands, and we needed the help of the Fullmoons. Even though our new little pack had somehow managed to defeat the Crescents on our campus and drive them away, we couldn’t handle all of the other towns on