My Hockey Alpha

Chapter 217: Together

Nina

When Enzo disappeared with Selena, I felt my heart begin to shatter into a million pieces. For the second time in the past few weeks, I had lost him again and now I wasn’t sure if I could ever get him back. Selena’s claws had sunk deep into his mind, and it seemed that her spell had taken a strong enough hold on him that even looking at me and seeing my pain didn’t cause him to recognize me in the slightest.

Lori and Jessica held me tightly as I sobbed on the forest floor. I could hear Matt shouting, but I couldn’t make out what he said over my sobs; but he sounded just as angry as I felt, and when I cracked my eyes open, I could see that tears were streaked down Lori and Jessica’s faces as well.

“Don’t worry,” Jessica said, sliding her hands under my back and helping me to sit up. “We’ll find him. I promise.”

I shook my head as I sat up and pulled my knees up to my chest, wrapping my arms around my legs in an upright fetal position. “It’s too late,” I said, my chest heaving with silent sobs as tears continued to stream down my dirt-caked face. “I can’t open a portal. And Selena’s magic is too powerful… I won’t stand a chance against her.”

Lori frowned. She opened her mouth to say something, but before she could, another familiar voice called to me from behind her, causing all of us to jerk our heads up.

“You’re giving up already?” Luke said. He was standing at the edge of the clearing. His hands were balled up into tight fists at his sides, and as he stormed closer to me, I could see that his face was red and he was shaking slightly with what looked like anger. “You can’t just give up like that.”

I stared up at him with an open mouth, still clutching my knees to my chest. “What the hell am I supposed to do, Luke?” I responded. “He’s gone. Selena took him. And she’ll just kill me anyway if I try to take him back again.”

Luke silently stared at me for several long, palpable moments. The air between the five of us was so thick it could be cut with a knife, and I felt as though my lungs couldn’t even take in any oxygen from the weight of it all.

“I can open a portal for you,” Luke said finally, his face softening and his hands uncurling. “I can get you there before it’s too late. You still have time.”

I stood then, shaking my head vigorously. “Your disguise,” I said, gesturing to him. If he opened a portal, it would ruin his disguise, and I knew how important it was to him to feel human again. I never wanted to take that away from him.

Luke rolled his eyes. “How many times do I have to tell you?” he said. “This is more important. You’re more important. I knew that there was something special about you from the moment I met you. You’re not just an ordinary human, and you’re not even just an ordinary werewolf. You’re the missing daughter of the Alpha King; the daughter that the Crescents were supposed to kill twenty years ago.”

“What does my lineage have to do with anything?” I asked.

“You’ve seen Selena’s power,” Luke replied, sounding almost annoyed at my incompetence. “You have the same powers. You’re possibly even stronger. I didn’t want to tell you this until I was absolutely certain, but that witch who helped me… She told me about a prophecy. ‘The missing sister will save the kingdom and unite the races together.’ Humans, werewolves, undead… All of us. If you give up now, the Crescents will have their way.”

are you talking about?” I asked. “If my fate was to stop the Crescents, why didn’t they kill me

for a moment. My friends shifted uncomfortably on their feet, staring at the two of us as tensions rose. Everything felt like it was moving too slowly and too quickly at the same time; with every moment wasted, Enzo was being taken further and further away

they couldn’t. All along, I thought it was because they took pity on you, but it was something else.

sure, but I knew that Luke had never been wrong about these things before… And if he was right this time, then I needed to trust him. I needed to not only save Enzo, but I supposedly needed to save the kingdom. And I

whisper, but it still shook with fear.

fervor. She was about to tell me that she didn’t want me to go — I was sure of it. I opened my

she said, taking me by surprise.

to put herself in dangerous situations. But then, I thought back to the clumsy girl who nearly tumbled down a mountain just a few months earlier over a photograph — during a camping trip that I suddenly dragged her along on with no explanation, in the middle of nowhere, and she went without a second thought. I thought about how she always held my hand tightly, her nails digging into my palm, whenever we went through the haunted house at the Halloween fair every year; she hated going but she went anyway because she knew that it made me happy

remembered that Jessica was a lot stronger than I had always thought; she wasn’t just my blonde friend who went to parties and wore pink. She was brilliant and brave, and she had always been

same passion in her eyes. I knew that she would come, too. Lori had always been there for me; she always listened calmly when I needed someone to talk to, and she was always the calm voice of reason, but she never hesitated to stand up for her friends when she needed to. Sometimes she was crazy, and sometimes she said things that hurt people’s feelings, but that was because

but already he had become a rock in our group. When I had met him, he had been an airheaded frat boy who only ever cracked

at Luke. All I could do

a chance

didn’t have

Chapter 217: Together

Nina

a million pieces. For the second time in the past few weeks, I had lost him again and now I wasn’t sure if I could ever get him back. Selena’s claws had sunk deep into his mind, and it seemed that her spell had taken a strong enough hold on him that even looking at me and seeing my

I sobbed on the forest floor. I could hear Matt shouting, but I couldn’t make out what he said over my sobs; but he sounded just as

said, sliding her hands under my back and helping

and pulled my knees up to my chest, wrapping my arms around my legs in an upright fetal position. “It’s too late,” I said, my chest heaving with silent sobs as tears continued to stream down my dirt-caked face. “I can’t open a portal. And Selena’s magic is too powerful… I won’t stand a chance

frowned. She opened her mouth to say something, but before she could, another familiar voice called to me from behind

the clearing. His hands were balled up into tight fists at his sides, and as he stormed closer to me, I

“What the hell am I supposed to do, Luke?” I responded. “He’s gone. Selena took him. And she’ll just kill me anyway if I

at me for several long, palpable moments. The air between the five of us was so thick it could be cut with a knife, and I felt as though my lungs couldn’t even take in any oxygen from the weight of it

for you,” Luke said finally, his face softening and his hands uncurling. “I can get you there before

disguise,” I said, gesturing to him. If he opened a portal, it would ruin his disguise, and I knew how important it was to him to feel human again. I never wanted to take