My Hockey Alpha by Eve Above Story PDF

Chapter 0685

Nina

My heart slammed against my ribs as the bone-chilling howls sounded again outside the darkened house. The wolves had us surrounded. Beside me, Daphne shook with fear. She turned to me, her eyes wide and her red hair wildly framing her face.

"What should we do?" she whispered, looking around frantically.

I swallowed, bolting over to the window, and that was when I saw them: the dozen or so dark shapes moving toward the house in sync, coming from all directions. "Shit," I whispered, whirling around.

Just then, a loud click echoed from downstairs-the front door unlocking, God, I never should have kept a spare key outside. How could I be so stupid?

"They're inside," I whispered harshly. I turned to Daphne then. "Daphne, you have to fly down to the Peacekeeper headquarters. Tell them I need their help."

Her eyes widened even further, if that was even possible. "But I can't leave you," she whispered. "Nina, I can't—" "Just go." I quickly crossed the room once more and flung the window open again, gesturing to it wildly. "Ely as fast as you can."

Daphne paused, but only for a moment before she nodded and shifted back into her bird form, fluttering desperately toward the open window. I watched her vanish into the night, then took a deep, shuddering breath before I crept silently toward the hallway closet, my pulse racing.

Heavy boots stomped around on the floor below. Quickly and silently, I cracked the closet door open and slipped inside, just out of sight. I tried to steady my breathing, straining to hear the muffled voices over the jackhammering of my heart. "Check everywhere," a male voice barked. "Find the girl!"

My heart sank. So they were looking for me. This was no ordinary burglary. But why? What did they want with me? Were they the Crescents, coming back for revenge? It had to be; I couldn't think of anyone else who would want me dead.

The footsteps came closer then, pounding up the stairs. I squeezed my eyes shut, praying that somehow, they wouldn't check the closet first.

as they stomped ominously down the hallway before they finally faded away into the guest bedroom. I leaned against the wall inside the

focus; I couldn't hide here forever, because they'd certainly check this closet. I needed to try for my car keys while I still had the chance. Maybe, just maybe, I could slip past the intruders and speed away in the truck before

I eased open the closet door and scanned

Shadows passed by the stairwell below, but there was

could race through the dining room, grab my keys

the stairs, something happened: a floorboard groaned loudly beneath my foot. I froze, wincing at the noise as

me. I whirled around and fled

latch the tiny window. There

get the window open, the knob rattled violently. Then, moments later, the door splintered

her!" he called out, quickly closing the distance between us. I screamed and tried to dart past him, but he was too big, and he blocked the way. He grabbed

the world flew into chaos. Everything happened all at once, time slowing down and moving too quickly at

shielding my

familiar voice echoed ethereally through the light. "You

furrowed my brow;

"Selena?" I whispered.

on the tile floor in front of me, unconscious. Then, the next wave of chaos came: a thunderous crash echoed

the end of the hall, Matt's huge black wolf form collided with a burly man, slamming

Matt urged, using our pack's Mindlink

the hallway, past the fight, and began