My Hockey Alpha

Chapter 283: An Unlikely Ally

Nina

Enzo and I returned home after visiting his father’s house. As we drove home, the cold night wind blew in my face on the back of Enzo’s motorcycle and the yellow crescent moon shone above us.

Seeing Enzo’s father’s house ransacked like that filled me with an odd combination of sadness and hope. It broke my heart that Richard’s Beta disrespected him like that, but at the same time it made me only want to try harder to bring all of this to an end.

A little while later, we were pulling into the parking lot of the campus. Enzo parked the motorcycle and helped me off, and we were walking back to his dorm hand-in-hand when we suddenly heard the sound of shouting.

“Enzo! Nina!” Luke’s voice rang out across the quad, followed by the sound of feet slamming on pavement as he ran toward us. Enzo and I both whipped around to see Luke running at us, his eyes wide and full of fear.

“What is it?” I asked, immediately feeling my heart rise up into my throat just from seeing the look on his face.

“It’s Lori and Jessica,” he said quickly. “They’re gone. Some Crescents came… They took them through a portal!”

I felt my entire body freeze. It felt as though my heart stopped and time froze during that moment, and every muscle in my body tensed as fight or flight kicked in. The world spun around me, and for a moment I thought for sure that I would vomit.

“…took them,” Luke finished. I had been completely absorbed in my own head for the majority of his sentence, and only caught the tail end. Beside me, Enzo was frantic.

he asked, his hand gripping

of them opened a portal, and then they all disappeared before I could get there. I tried to go after them, but it was too late by the time I opened my own portal. I don’t know where

idea as to where they went,” Enzo growled. I knew what he was thinking: the Alpha King’s mansion. The Luna had sent Crescents to come and take them, and was no doubt trying to use them as a means to lure us there. I wasn’t sure how two Crescents made it past our airtight defenses in Mountainview, but somehow they did

and thick with fear. “Call the recruits. Meet us at the

Once we were there, we frantically filled backpacks with the antidote and various medical supplies because we knew what was potentially coming next: a battle. We needed to be prepared

do you?”

tried to quell it as I tried to focus on preparing for the upcoming battle. I just hoped more than anything that the Luna wouldn’t pull a nasty trick and kill my friends before we even got there… But, like Enzo, I had no way of knowing. The Luna was

arena. Both hockey teams were with him as well. Everyone

come, step forward now. If you want to stay here, that’s fine; but you’ll be protecting the town in the event of a Crescent

forward. Those people included quite a few recruits, some of Jason’s team, Matt, and some of our hockey team. Jason and the others stayed behind with the intention of protecting the campus, which I was glad for. I knew that Enzo needed his Beta by his side to fight, so Jason would be extremely helpful in

come,” I whispered to my

head. “I’m your bodyguard. I’ll be with

words made me smile a bit. Enzo then gave his orders to everyone else, who then left with Jason to patrol the town. Meanwhile, the rest of us gathered and Luke began

I looked up to

she screamed. “I’m coming with

eyes narrowed and he stepped protectively in front of me as Selena ran up to us. She came to a stop, breathing heavily with a wild look in her