My Hockey Alpha

Nina

The antidote shined up at me like a beacon of hope from Tiffany’s medical bag. Even just while looking at it, I felt a few tears of joy begin to well up in my eyes — but the mission still wasn’t over. I needed to find my friends and cure them, then get everyone to safety. Once I finished that, my priority would be to find a way to get back to Enzo and get him out of Selena’s grasp before it was too late. Without Enzo, I wouldn’t have a chance at saving our campus.

Enzo had mentioned that he saw Lori and Jessica as rogues… My best guess was that he saw them in the tunnels when he was fighting the rogues off. Even though the last thing I wanted to do was to go down into those dark tunnels again, I knew that I would have to go; and it was starting to get dark, which meant that there would be more rogues coming out soon. I would have to be quick, but thankfully the forest entrance to the tunnels was close by.

Checking to make sure that the coast was clear one last time, I quietly climbed to my feet — trying my best to ignore the shooting pain in my leg — and began to limp toward the tunnel entrance. Admittedly, I was a bit shocked that the Crescents didn’t seem to be looking for me after I stole the medical bag; maybe they just assumed that the rogues would get me since it was getting dark out.

Somehow, after limping through the rapidly darkening forest for what felt like hours, I made it to the hatch in the woods. I checked once more to make sure that I wasn’t being watched before I slowly opened the hatch and climbed down, swallowing my fear as I descended into the dark tunnels.

The last time I was in these tunnels, I had developed a sudden ability to see in the dark, but that ability seemed to have disappeared now that my wolf’s presence was gone. Thankfully, there was a small emergency flashlight in Tiffany’s medical bag, so I flicked it on and began to make my way down the tunnels.

I wasn’t walking for long before I was suddenly hit with a wall of musky stench that made me gag.

shirt up over my nose as my eyes

down here; I was sure of it.

of rogues sleeping, scattered around the tunnels and the adjoined rooms in big, furry piles. They must have

began to make my way forward. I took an abundance of caution as I painstakingly made my way around the piles of sleeping, fetid

bump into a rogue’s leg. I instantly froze, feeling my heart leap into my throat as I waited for the rogue

it only snorted in its sleep and

going. Eventually, the tunnel began to break off into offshoots of small rooms, each filled with rogues. I took my time in the doorway of each room to peer in and scan for Lori and Jessica, but somehow I knew that they weren’t there. I couldn’t explain it, but I just knew that I would be certain when I

And I was.

to give up and head toward another offshoot, or even leave the tunnels and get to safety for the night, when my eye suddenly caught two sleeping forms in the corner. They were curled up tightly together, sleeping deeply with their

Lori and Jessica. I was

of my chest as I set down the medical bag as gently as I could, cringing at the quiet sound of the zipper, followed by the sound of the glass bottle of antidote clinking as I picked it up and inserted one

one needle in each hand, I held my breath and quickly