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.

deep breath, glancing over my shoulders again with the fear

“Eight… Nine… Zero… Two.”

my throat, my fingers crossed in the hopes that maybe, just maybe, the final code was

on the keypad

“Fuck!”

wall, ignoring the searing sensation in my fists as the concrete scraped up my knuckles. These codes were the only hope I had to get Enzo and I out of here, and none of them worked. There was no doubt in my mind that Edward was watching all of this on a hidden camera, laughing to himself

to the pain I would feel

Maybe, if I hadn’t come here, none of this would have ever happened. Enzo could be safe right now if it wasn’t for me. Maybe his father was right; maybe I

Cora’s voice echo in my head faintly. She sounded

“Check again…”

said out loud. “What do

She didn’t answer.

out and grabbed the crumpled paper off of the floor. I held it up close to my one good eye and squinted as I studied

my cheek. I went to toss

deceiving me? I gripped the paper tightly, my brow furrowed, as I pushed myself back up to my feet and reached for the keypad, punching

“Seven… Two… Four… Nine.”

lip, a lump forming in my throat. No, I thought to myself.

But it was.

flashed a bright, beautiful green. I clapped a hand over my mouth, suppressing a scream of delight as a smile stretched across my face. The door slid open with

faded, however, when I

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