My Hockey Alpha

Chapter 260: Bad Timing

Nina

I locked eyes with the rogue leader.

He was standing apart from the rest, and his glowing yellow eyes were fixed unwaveringly on me. I knew instantly from the way he looked at me, and the way that my wolf reacted strongly inside of me, that this was his plan all along. He thought that he could kill me while the rest of the rogues ambushed everyone else, but there was a crucial detail that he didn’t know.

He didn’t know that I had come prepared with my own plan, too.

“Nina!” Luke begged as he tugged at my arm. “Hurry! We have to go now! I know you want to stay and fight, but there are too many—”

I suddenly wrenched my arm free and whirled around to face Luke. “Go without me,” I ordered him. “I’ll meet up with you. I have to do something first.”

Luke furrowed his brow and shook his head. He tried to grab me again, but I pulled away and continued to stare at him sternly.

“Go, Luke. I promise I’ll meet up with you soon.”

“Where are you going?” he asked, raising his voice over the sounds of screams, guns, and werewolf growls.

I looked back up at the rogue leader. He was stalking closer to me, slowly, with his hackles raised and his head lowered. His eyes never wavered away from me, and I swore I saw him lick his chops hungrily.

go off on some grand adventure.

watching from afar with wide eyes. They were waiting for me, having realized that humans were no match

be okay,” I assured him. “Please, just get Lori and

Jessica’s voices all echoed in the distance, but were soon overpowered by the sound of my shoes slamming against the pavement and my heavy breathing. I threw a last glance over my shoulder to see Luke ushering Lori and Jessica into a truck that someone

my pace and pushed my legs harder. I could feel the rogue

strength I need to run faster,” I urged my

“I’m on it.”

in my ears as I sprinted down the road faster than I ever thought possible. I glanced over my shoulder again to

the treeline up ahead that led to the forest hiking trails. I picked up my speed even more and broke off of the road to go into the woods, crashing through the underbrush. Thorns and tree branches whipped at my limbs, tearing up my clothes and drawing blood,

a little further, and then I could get the rogue leader

I felt something change in me as I leaped over a fallen tree. I lost momentum, slowing

said out loud,

I tumbled onto the ground, rolling down a small slope a little ways, and groaned as I dug

saliva. I spit, and a wad of wet dirt sprayed out of

loud, so loud that it rang in my ears and made me wince, and then the next moment it was so soft of a whisper that

Was the Luna putting

underbrush searching for me. Groaning, I rolled up onto my feet and stumbled forward, using the trees to balance myself as I half-ran

again, scraping my arm and my cheek on the rough side of a tree. I clamped my hand over my mouth to