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.

said, seeing through my plan immediately. “I won’t let you go off on some grand adventure. Right now, you

against the treeline that led to the campus, I could see Lori and Jessica watching from afar with wide eyes. They were waiting for me, having realized that humans were no match against these rogues. I shook my head slowly, then

be okay,” I assured him. “Please,

I was already turning on my heel and running off down the road. Luke’s, Lori’s, 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 had pulled up. Jessica screamed as the rogue leader leaped over the truck, narrowly missing all of them by a hair. But

under my breath, I picked up my pace and pushed my legs

run

“I’m on it.”

through me. I felt myself shoot forward 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

up my speed even more and broke off of the road to go into the woods,

get the rogue leader

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

said out loud, breathing frantically.

in and out of blackness, causing me to stumble over an exposed tree root and trip. I tumbled 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

was choked by saliva. I spit, and a wad of wet dirt sprayed out of my mouth

strange, as though it was fading in and out. One moment it was too loud, so loud that it rang in my ears and

had never felt this before… Was the Luna putting another spell on me? Was I going to lose my

through the underbrush searching for me. Groaning, I rolled up onto my feet and

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