My Hockey Alpha

Chapter 293: Snowfall

Nina

When I looked up at the full moon peeking out from behind the clouds, I felt an overwhelming urge to shift.

Even though we had somehow been standing in that spot for hours without realizing it, I wasn’t ready to go inside just yet. I still had a decision to make: would I return to Mountainview, or would I stay with my father?

“What do you say we stay out a little bit longer?” I asked Enzo.

Enzo grinned and nodded. We shifted together into our wolf forms. Our human forms twisted and turned into wolves, our skin turned into fur, our eyes glowed. We looked at each other for a few moments, taking in one another’s non-human appearance as our newfound vigor and strength flowed through us. Then, with Enzo in the lead this time, we leaped off into the darkening forest.

We ran for a long time without stopping, just feeling the cold air rippling through our fur and the sensation of freedom in our legs. The forest smelled thickly of pine and the air smelled as though it was about to snow any minute. As we leaped over fallen trees and small gullies, there was no destination in mind; we just wanted to run. We wanted to run freely, with no shackles holding us down, no fear, no pain. It felt good, yet oddly strange at the same time, to run without having to worry about running into battle or being chased by the forces of evil.

as our own human laughter echoed in our

out of breath and panting, we stopped play fighting and running. We began to walk alongside each other, brushing up against one another, and walked back into the woods, back in the direction that we came from. By now, a light snow had begun to fall. The dark green branches of the pine trees started to become covered by a light white dust, brightening the entire forest. I hoped that it would snow heavily, that it would blanket Selena’s fresh grave, that we would wake up to several feet of snow outside in the morning and that the snow would be piled so high against the doors of the mansion that we would have a good excuse not to make our choice yet. But I knew that my friends were waiting for me back in

our human forms. There was a large boulder on one side of it, and we sat down on it together. Enzo wrapped his

a decision?” Enzo asked quietly

want to be here, amongst other werewolves. I want to be near my dad. I want to get to know the place that my mother and my sister used to know so well. I want to start fresh and put all of the horrible things that happened in Mountainview behind me… But at the same time, I

found it so peaceful when it would snow. The way that the world fell silent when it snowed, as though the earth went to sleep, was a welcome distraction from the noise. I

when my dad first told me that we were leaving the werewolf realm and that we were going to live in Mountainview, I was furious,” he said with a bit of a chuckle. “I loved it here. The thought of living with humans made me sick. I felt like a

looking up at him. “You’ve never

have a relationship with Lisa to get a positive influence at the school, and it made me hate the place even more. It left me with a bad taste in my mouth about shallow humans, about human society… But then I met you.” He

widened slightly.

I couldn’t tell. “You showed me that humans are amazing, and they’re strong, and they’re loving. You introduced me to people who I never would have even spoken to otherwise. You showed me that a pack doesn’t need to just be wolves, so long as the people in the pack care deeply for each