My Hockey Alpha Chapter 120

Shared Trauma

Nina

Enzo and I almost kissed.

But we didn’t. He stepped away before we could. I understood why he did that, but it still hurt. At the very least, even though he left almost immediately after, I made him promise not to hurt James; I wanted to get to the bottom of this before we did anything rash. For all we knew, James wasn’t even planning on doing anything bad. We didn’t even know what the letter truly meant in its entirety.

That night, however, I had countless horrible dreams. In one dream, I was back in Edward’s tunnels and he was forcing me to drink my medicine. When he poured it down my throat, it turned into a thick sludge that made me choke. In another dream, I was running toward Enzo, but something was holding me back and I never reached him before he disappeared.

In my final dream, I saw Enzo standing in front of me. He was smiling and holding a woman’s hand. I couldn’t see her face because it was covered by a wedding veil, but when they turned toward each other and he lifted his veil and kissed her, I knew it was his fated mate despite still not seeing her face. I sobbed, trying as hard as I could to get between them and stop them, but as I did, Enzo suddenly grabbed me by my throat and throttled me. I struggled against him as he lifted me off of the ground by my neck, my limbs flailing while I clawed at his firm hands. The last thing I saw before I started to lose consciousness was the image of his glowing red eyes staring angrily at me.

Suddenly, I woke up to the feeling of someone shaking me and the sound of Lori and Jessica’s concerned voices.

“Nina? Are you okay?” Jessica asked.

I cracked my eyes open, then furrowed my brow. “What are you doing in my room?” It was still pitch black outside, and when I glanced over at the digital clock on my dresser, it was only three o’clock in the morning.

“You were totally freaking out,” Jessica said. “We heard you yelling and got worried about you.”

I frowned, sat up, and rubbed my eyes.

“What happened?” Lori asked.

“I keep having nightmares about what Edward did to me,” I said quietly. “They won’t stop. And they’ve been getting worse.”

Lori and Jessica both looked at each other in unison.

on the edge of my bed, “the whole town knows about werewolves now. If that’s what was stopping you from turning Edward in to the police before,

who exactly he, Ronan, Lisa, and whoever else are working for. Besides… I have no evidence. It’ll be just like that time that I tried to turn in the stalker and they didn’t

Jessica were silent for a moment

get some evidence,” she suggested. “You said the tunnel has two entrances,

I could do it… The very thought of going back in those tunnels made me want to

Lori both wrapped their

said. “Whatever you need. That’s what

hardly got any more sleep that night. By six o’clock in the morning, I gave up entirely and just decided to wake up and get to the library early to work

by that point the effects of the sleep deprivation were really starting to take a toll on me. No matter how much coffee I drank, I could hardly keep

to flutter as I rested my chin on my hand, and then

the professor dropping a textbook on my

Harper?” the professor

eyes. “I’m so sorry,” I said. “I didn’t get much

this class,” he interrupted. “The exam is over, and it looks like you’re only halfway finished. I’ll be

I’d only get more

swallowed my pride and left

grades were slipping, and of course there was my

wanted to do was go back to my room and

exactly where I was heading when I heard

stopped and turned around to see Justin standing

“Oh. Hey,” I said.

from his messy hair and the dark circles under his eyes. For a moment

the bench by the

happened in the cafeteria the other day was actually really helpful,” he said once we sat

my brow.

initially. They usually involved a man torturing me… But when you mentioned Edward, and then Enzo asked

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