My Hockey Alpha

Chapter 251: A New Life

Nina

The next morning, after spending the night in Enzo’s apartment, I woke up feeling filled with a new sense of life. Despite all of my sleep deprivation, I surprisingly jumped out of bed before my alarm even went off. Enzo found me a little while later in the kitchen, making coffee and breakfast.

“You’re up already?” Enzo asked, rubbing his eyes sleepily. “And dressed, too?”

I nodded and smiled as I plopped two pieces of toast onto a plate and began to spread butter on them. “I’m going to class,” I said.

Enzo raised his eyebrows. I knew that he was surprised that I wanted to get back to class so soon, and he immediately voiced his concerns.

“Are you sure you don’t want to rest first?” he asked. “Everything has been so hectic. I’m sure the dean and your professors will understand if you need to miss a couple more days.”

I shook my head vehemently. “Nope. I’m going to class. I just want to feel like a normal person again, and I’ve already missed too much class this semester.”

Enzo stared at me for a while, but he said nothing. Instead, he finally seemed to give up and came over to pour himself a cup of coffee. He wrapped his arms around me and planted a kiss on the top of my head as he passed, then stole a bite of my toast with a cheeky grin before pouring his coffee. It made me smile; if I just pretended that I didn’t still need to deal with the Luna at some point, and if I pretended that the Crescents weren’t planning on taking over the world along with her, then I could imagine that we were just a regular couple getting ready to start our day. Someday, I hoped that we could live with that sense of normalcy. Once all of this was over, I was certain that could happen.

“Well, just don’t burn yourself out,” Enzo finally said. “I’ll walk you to class.”

promised, Enzo did walk me to class. I gave him a deep, passionate kiss before I went in, ignoring the disgusted looks from other students over our blatant public display of affection,

I had been in class, it felt like it was an eternity. I supposed that it was partially because I hadn’t been able to pay much attention since Enzo had

to keep her in the infirmary and were taking shifts to keep an eye on her, and even though she had plenty of comfort, access to food, and was able to use the locker rooms

— for the time being, at least. I planned on using my Claiming ability to turn her back eventually if she wound up working on herself and proving that she wouldn’t cause any more trouble, but for now she was pretty much harmless. Of course, we would still need to keep an eye on her in case she tried to do anything, but she didn’t have any special abilities anymore. She wasn’t any real threat to us, and I was also fairly certain that my words from the night before did strike a bit of a chord with her, so I didn’t think that she was planning on jumping at the opportunity to work with the Luna; not that the Luna

could offer us. It just needed to be drawn out of her, and I felt as

and told them my

doing what?” Jessica

here; she’s never been able to experience real

silent. When I looked up at Enzo, he was leaning against the wall outside the infirmary and staring blankly at me. Selena was inside and couldn’t hear anything that was being said; in fact, she wasn’t even looking at

several long moments, Enzo let out a sigh. “She’s right,” he said. “There’s no use in keeping her locked up and making her hate us even more. She could prove to be an important ally if we show her that we

of relief hissed through my lips. The rest of my friends stared

wouldn’t hurt. We should still keep

dean will assign her a dorm. If we keep the

and stepped in. They waited outside while I slowly walked up to

Selena,” I said gently as I approached. “Can we

angry huff. “What do you want?” she snarled, still with her

terribly angry with me, and there was still a chance that she would reject any form

you want to be a student here again?”