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.

let you go off on some grand adventure. Right now,

led to the campus, I could see Lori and Jessica watching from afar with wide eyes. They were waiting

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

my heavy breathing. I threw a last glance over my shoulder to see Luke ushering Lori and Jessica into a truck that someone had pulled up. Jessica screamed as the rogue leader leaped over

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

to run faster,” I

“I’m on it.”

like a lightning bolt. The wind rushed through my hair and whistled in my ears as I sprinted down the road faster than I ever thought possible. I glanced over my shoulder again to see that I had gained a little more distance between myself and the rogue leader, but he was still following me. That was

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

get the rogue leader alone and use the

something change in me as I leaped over a fallen tree. I

loud, breathing

root and trip. I tumbled onto the ground, rolling down a small slope a little ways, and groaned

by saliva. I spit, and a

it was too loud, so loud that it rang in my ears and made me wince, and then the

Luna putting

leader crashed through the underbrush searching for me. Groaning, I rolled up onto my feet and stumbled forward, using the trees to balance myself as I half-ran through the woods to put more distance between myself

my arm and my cheek on the rough side of a tree. I clamped my hand over my mouth to muffle the cry of pain, but as I heard the