My Hockey Alpha

Chapter 292: The Moon’s Clarity

Nina

“Let’s go for a walk,” I said to Enzo. I nodded my head toward the forest, past where the groundskeeper was filling in my twin sister’s grave with moist dirt. Over our heads, the wind was howling fiercely and the sky was darkening at a rapid rate while a freezing, sharp rain was beginning to fall.

Enzo looked a little surprised at my request to walk in this weather, but he didn’t protest. “Lead the way,” he said. I took his hand and led him past the groundskeeper, into the thicker part of the woods where the wind and the rain were less prominent. It felt a little silly to be walking through the woods in that weather while wearing a simple black dress, which had actually belonged to Selena, but I felt too compelled to walk and I didn’t want to go back to the mansion.

“Where do you want to go?” Enzo asked curiously.

I shrugged. “Nowhere in particular. I just want to think clearly.”

my needs would be well taken care of, I would never need to worry about money again, and I could always be near my father. However, it wasn’t home. Mountainview was my home. It was our home; mine and Enzo’s. I didn’t want to leave my friends, my town, or my campus just

time in complete silence, holding hands and listening only to the wind whistling overhead and the trees creaking against one another. The frost that lay on the hard ground

keep track of how long we walked for. It felt like hours, but neither of us cared. As werewolves, the cold didn’t bother us very much. In fact, the cold made me feel invigorated and free, and filled me with an overwhelming urge to shift. Beside me, I could somehow sense that Enzo wanted to shift,

sit and read during the nice weather; and somehow, as I stood there and looked around, I suddenly got the sense that Selena did just that while she was alive. It was as though our

didn’t know anything about Selena. I only ever saw flashes of her true self come out when she occasionally broke through the Luna’s spell. Other than that, the Selena that I knew was just a fabricated image, a facade. A puppet to do the Luna’s bidding. And yet, in the

his touch gave away all of his emotions. I could tell that he was more deeply sad about Selena’s untimely death than he let on, but that he was also deeply relieved that everything was over — for the most part. For us, it was over. My father would handle

chose to go back to

the blood-soaked floors of the hockey arena after the rogues broke in. I saw all of the needless fights that I had with Enzo. I saw Richard’s weak, dying body laying in Enzo’s arms in the forest. In a way, moving to the werewolf realm was a way to have a fresh start. I would visit Mountainview, of course. But maybe it was best for it to be just that: a

frozen stream. I shivered slightly beneath