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.

my plan immediately. “I won’t let you go off on some grand adventure. Right now, you need to listen to everyone else

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

promise I’ll be okay,” I assured him. “Please, just get Lori and Jessica to

pavement and my heavy breathing. I threw a last glance over my shoulder to see Luke

pushed my legs harder.

me the strength I need to run faster,” I urged my

“I’m on it.”

over my shoulder again to see that I had gained a little more distance between

more and broke off of the road

and then I could get the rogue leader alone and use the

in me as I leaped over a fallen tree. I lost momentum, slowing to a normal speed, and felt

out loud, breathing

onto the ground, rolling down a small slope a little ways, and groaned as I dug my fingers into the dirt and tried to regain my composure. But the world was spinning around me, and I was certain that I would fall

called out again. My voice was choked by saliva. I spit, and

that it rang in my ears and made me wince, and then the next moment it

this before… Was the Luna putting another spell on me?

Groaning, I rolled up onto my feet and stumbled forward, using the trees to balance

no use. I lost my balance and fell again, scraping 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 rogue slow its