My Hockey Alpha

Enzo

I hardly even had time to process what had just happened before the portal closed and Selena suddenly grabbed my arm, yanking me out of my stupor as she opened another portal nearby.

“Come on,” she snarled as her nails dug into the skin of my arm. I felt so numb at this point that I couldn’t even feel it. “Let’s go. It’s almost time for dinner and you’re filthy.”

I couldn’t say a word as we stepped through the new portal she opened and wound up back in my room at the mansion. It felt as though the world was spinning around me. My mind scrambled already to think of ways that I could get back to Nina, but without the knowledge of how to open a portal on my own, I would be stuck here until I could find someone who knew how. At the very least, I took some solace in the fact that Nina was smart and strong and that she could take care of herself until either the Fullmoons or I came to her rescue.

“Here,” Selena said, pulling me over to the bathroom and turning on the faucet to fill up the tub. Then, her eyes darkened into a sultry expression and she smirked up at me. “Do you need some help bathing?”

“Um— No, thanks,” I said. I really wanted to yell at her to get the hell away from me and that I’d never want her to touch my naked body, but I knew that it would only make matters worse. If I wanted to get back to Nina, I would have to keep things friendly with Selena and make her believe that I wasn’t going to leave; if she didn’t believe me, I was certain that she would find a way to trap me here, being as powerful and as rich as she was.

Selena frowned. “Fine,” she said with a huff, turning on her heel and storming off toward the door. “Dinner is in an hour. If you’re not presentable by then, you’re going to be in trouble… So I’d advise hurrying up with your bath. There are clean clothes in the closet, and you can throw the ones you’re wearing away, because they’re disgusting.”

“Alright,” I said, restraining the urge to snap at her once more. “Thanks. I’ll see you in an hour.”

With that, Selena scurried out of my room. I let out a sigh of relief when she was gone, then closed and locked the bathroom door before taking my clothes off while the tub filled.

…

later, on the dot, I stood outside the dining room. I had cleaned myself well and was wearing the stiff suit that was left for me in the closet, which was a little too

were already waiting by the table for me. There was another woman there who I recognized as the Luna, the Alpha King’s wife. She had long white hair and red eyes, and didn’t speak or make any sort of facial expression. I stared straight ahead as I entered, too angry with my father to even look

intricate braid. For a moment, I forgot that she wasn’t Nina,

I sat down beside

brought out our decadent meal of roast duck and red wine, the Alpha King already began his negotiations with my father. I felt almost like nothing more than

Alpha King said, unfurling his pristine white napkin with a flourish and laying it across his lap, “onto the topic of the town

said. “From what I hear, a few of the locals have taken matters into their own hands and have been putting up a good fight, but the town is quickly being overrun with rogues created at the Crescents’ hands. With this many rogues, my men alone won’t be able to

his roast duck, then popped a piece into his mouth and spoke with

won’t be a problem,” he said nonchalantly. “As we all know, rogues are unintelligent and easily fooled. We can easily take them all out, and then deal with

while my duck still sat on my plate untouched. “But those rogues are all innocent people

my father and the Alpha King, as well as the Luna, slowly turned to look at me. My father’s eyes were wide and disbelieving, as though he really expected me not to speak throughout this entire meal. Meanwhile, the Alpha King

casualties are bound to happen,” the Alpha King said.

“But there’s an antidote—”

have that supposed antidote on hand, and a large enough supply of it to cure everyone

really being so indifferent about the lives of innocent people? These were my

chimed in and placed her hand on my leg, making me