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.”

I would never need to worry about money again, and I could

and listening only to the wind whistling overhead and the trees creaking against one another. The frost that lay on the hard ground crunched lightly beneath our feet, and altogether these

didn’t 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

and looked around, I suddenly got the sense that Selena did just that while she was alive. It was as though our twin bond gave me the ability

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 end, she still managed to break through it and stop the Luna, even if it

he let on, but that he was also deeply relieved that everything was over — for the most part. For us, it was

I chose to go back to

of what had happened that semester; I saw Edward, Tiffany, Justin, Lisa, Ronan. I saw 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

my waist again as we continued to stand there and look down at the frozen stream. I shivered slightly beneath the cold touch