My Hockey Alpha

Chapter 216: Through My Fingers

Nina

My friends still weren’t here yet, and it seemed that the hex that Luke put on Selena was already beginning to wear off. I could see the slight flicker of sparks that formed on her fingertips as she tried and tried again to open a portal, and I knew that she would accomplish her goal at any moment.

Maybe I was acting crazy and reckless, but I couldn’t just let her leave with Enzo. I couldn’t lose him again. I didn’t care if Selena hurt me, or even if her spell was so thick in Enzo’s mind that he thought I was insane. All I knew was that I needed to stop her until my friends came to help me.

Without a second thought, I bolted out from behind the tree.

Enzo saw me first. His eyes widened with a mixture of surprise and confusion as I sprinted across the clearing.

Then, Selena saw me; but only a single moment before I collided with her, tackling her to the ground with all of the force I had in my body.

Together, Selena and I grappled on the forest floor for a few moments. She snarled and shouted obscenities as she tried to claw at me with her fingernails, but I quickly grabbed her wrists as hard as I could and wrenched them back, pinning them against the ground and causing her to yelp in pain. I sat on top of her and kept her pinned there, my eyes wild with determination.

“You bitch!” Selena growled. “Enzo! Help me! Get her off!”

“No, Enzo!” I shouted, whipping my head around at him to stare into his eyes in the hopes that he would recognize me and break through her spell again. “Don’t listen to her!”

Enzo’s eyes were still wide. He stared at both of us with confusion, his eyes darting back and forth between the two of us. I could tell that Selena’s spell had dug itself even deeper into his mind this time, and it seemed as though he didn’t even really know where he was. No matter how hard I pleaded with my eyes, he only looked back at me with a confused expression on his face.

“Baby!” Selena insisted. “Help!”

toward us. I thought for the briefest of moments that he recognized me and was going to help me again… But I was so, so wrong in

said, his eyes beginning to glow red with anger as he towered

tears beginning to well up

have to break through her

my shirt and yanked me off of Selena. He tossed me to the ground, not even caring that he might have hurt me, and then

while his hands rubbed her wrists

with dirt and tears. “Enzo, please—” I began, reaching out for him, but he slapped my hand away and glared at me with those angry, glowing red eyes. Meanwhile, Selena only smirked behind him as he looked at me, but her face quickly returned to a twisted sob as he

this crazy bitch is, but I want to go home,” Selena sobbed, throwing her arms around

wanted to fight back. I wanted to tear them away from each other, but Enzo only glared at me angrily over her shoulder, his eyes burning with a territorial urgency. I knew that if I

was plead with him, with my eyes and with

clouded with tears and my heart sank in my chest, “don’t you remember me? Can’t you see that she’s tricking

But Enzo didn’t answer.

Selena,” he said, his angry eyes

stop my knees from buckling beneath me, and I fell to the ground, digging my hands and my knees into the dirt as

so deep into his mind that he didn’t even remember me as anything but an

so thick that they fully clouded my vision, turning Selena and Enzo into nothing but two vaguely human-shaped

suddenly came into view. She grabbed my face with her hand, digging her nails into my cheeks and my neck, and scowled at me with eyes that burned with

her spittle flying into my face. “You’d never even be his first choice if he did know

replied. “If you’re going to take him from me, then just