My Hockey Alpha Chapter 105

Healing Touch

Nina

“My name is Nina Harper. I’m a student at Mountainview University. Edward is a liar, and werewolves are real. Enzo is a good man, and he came to save me…”

As I whispered this mantra to myself, I finally, slowly but surely, made my way to Enzo’s door. I pulled the paper out of my hand and uncrumpled it, straining my blurry eyes to read the numbers.

On the paper, there was a list of four different numbers.

“Seven… Three… Nine… Zero.”

I punched the first number into the door and bit my lip, watching with bated breath and letting out a disappointed sigh when the light blinked red on the keypad. I glanced both ways over my shoulder again, groaning quietly as searing pain overtook my injured neck, before I tried the next number.

“Eight… One… Two… Five.”

I waited again. The keypad blinked red again.

It had to be one of these numbers, right?

“Five… Four…. Six… Nine.”

As the light on the keypad blinked red at me for the third time, it almost felt as though it was mocking me this time, as if to say that I was a blundering idiot for thinking that Edward actually had the real codes to our prison cells written on a scrap of paper in his pocket. Surely Edward was too smart to do something as simple as that.

took a deep breath, glancing over my shoulders again with the fear of

“Eight… Nine… Zero… Two.”

like I waited for an eternity. My breath was caught in my throat, my fingers crossed in

again, the light on the

“Fuck!”

get Enzo and I out of here, and none of them worked. There was no doubt in my mind that Edward was watching all

the wall and slid down to the floor, pulling my knees up to my chest. As the tears started to flow, I could feel their salty sting on my swollen eye, but I didn’t care. Surely, the pain I felt now would be nothing compared to the pain I would feel when Edward

the wall lightly, sobbing quietly to myself as I cursed myself for ever coming to this school to begin with. Maybe, if I hadn’t come

in my head faintly. She sounded weak and

“Check again…”

“What do you mean? None of the codes

She didn’t answer.

of the floor. I held it up close to my one good

whispered once more. Another tear rolled down my cheek. I went to

were written in a slightly different colored pen. Were my eyes deceiving me? I gripped the paper tightly, my brow furrowed, as I pushed myself back up to my feet

“Seven… Two… Four… Nine.”

I bit my lip, a lump forming in my throat. No, I thought to myself. That can’t

But it was.

clapped a hand over my mouth, suppressing a scream of delight as a smile stretched across my face. The door slid open with a mechanical whirring

when I saw the scene before

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