My Hockey Alpha

Enzo

On the morning after I upset Selena and slept on the couch for talking to Nina, I woke up feeling foggier than usual. Selena, much to my surprise, was already awake and was cooking pancakes in the kitchen.

“Good morning, sunshine,” she said with a grin as she flipped a pancake on the stove. “Hungry?”

I managed a slight smile as I stood and walked over to her. My body was sore from my night spent sleeping on the couch, but at least Selena seemed to be in a good mood now; in fact, now that I thought about it, I couldn’t quite remember why she was mad at me to begin with. I remembered talking to that girl named Nina, but I didn’t know why I was talking to her.

Either way, it didn’t matter. The most important thing on my mind was keeping my love happy, and I would have done whatever it would take to make that happen.

However, as the day went on, the fogginess in my brain continued. I felt out of it all day, and chalked it up to a head cold or exhaustion. But when the foggy feeling still didn’t go away after two days, I started to wonder if something was wrong.

Everything changed when I went to a party with Selena.

We were having a nice time, drinking and dancing together. She seemed happy, which made me happy, and made me forget about the strange feeling in my head. But when I got separated from her, and suddenly felt someone grab me by the hand and yank me through the crowd, I knew that something fishy was going on.

Nina pushed me outside and had one of her friends guard the door for us. All I could think about was Selena — was she okay? Nina was staring at me with a confusing amount of intensity, and it only made me more uneasy around her.

“Um— What’s going on?” I asked, trying to look over her to see if Selena was inside. “Do you need something?”

Nina said. “Please.

and took a few steps backwards, but she only closed the distance between us again. How did she even know my real name? To everyone else here, I

like she was trying to see into my soul. I was uncomfortable in this situation and only wanted to get out and make sure that Selena was okay. “I have a girlfriend,” I said. I sidestepped around her in an attempt to get

she shouted. Tears seemed to be welling up in her eyes. “Please. It’s Nina. Please remember me… Selena put a spell on

hadn’t put a spell on me. And what did she mean

I had enough. I needed to know if Selena was okay, and without a word, I ripped my

from the

the shoulder and turning me back to face him. But this time I was prepared, and I swung at him. He ducked, but it didn’t matter; it gave me

in the bathroom and were questioning her on her true identity. I could only hold her and comfort her as I fumed over the sick prank Nina played on us. I wasn’t sure, however, if I could bring myself to tell her what Nina did to me just then,

night, as I walked home with Selena, I couldn’t deny the sudden, intense scent that traveled across the air to

was tantalizingly sweet, and I instantly recognized it as my mate’s

…

was walking to meet Selena when

I picked up her

How was it that her scent was so sweet to me? It simply didn’t make sense, and I immediately brushed it off as another prank before walking away from her again to

and comforted her over being kicked out of class by Nina’s doing, I still couldn’t deny the strange scent that was drawing me to this