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

of her,” he said, his eyes beginning to glow red with anger as

already felt tears beginning to

I begged, “it’s me. Nina. You have

I could finish, Enzo suddenly grabbed me by the back of my shirt and yanked me off of Selena. He tossed me to the ground, not

he asked her, his eyes searching her face with worry while his hands rubbed her

to my feet, my face caked 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

is, but I want to go home,” Selena sobbed, throwing her arms

his eyes burning with a territorial urgency. I knew that if I tried to get in between them now,

instead was plead with him,

head as my vision clouded with tears and my heart sank in

But Enzo didn’t answer.

go, Selena,” he said, his angry eyes

throat. I couldn’t stop my knees from buckling beneath me, and I fell to the ground, digging my hands and my knees into the dirt as

there was nothing to do now; Enzo hated me. Selena had sunk her claws so deep into his mind that he didn’t even remember me as anything but an evil doppelganger of someone who he thought was his fated

so thick that they fully clouded my vision, turning Selena and Enzo into nothing

underfoot, and Selena’s face suddenly came into view. She grabbed my face with her hand, digging her nails into my cheeks and my neck, and scowled at

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

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