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.

and we raced around the field with wild abandon. We tumbled on the ground together and play fought, nipping at each other’s fur as our own human laughter echoed in our heads. It still felt almost unnatural to speak without really

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

one side of it, and we sat down on it together. Enzo wrapped his arm around me as I leaned my

Enzo asked quietly as he looked up at

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

when it would snow. The way that the world fell

the werewolf realm and that we were going to live in Mountainview, I was furious,” he said with a bit of

him. “You’ve

bad taste in my mouth about shallow humans, about human society… But then I met you.” He looked over at me

widened slightly.

to people who I never would have even spoken to otherwise. You