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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.

know,” Lori said, sitting on the edge of my bed, “the whole town knows about werewolves now. If that’s what was stopping

not just that. I don’t know what he’s capable of, and I still don’t know who exactly he, Ronan, Lisa, and whoever else are working for. Besides… I have no evidence. It’ll be just like that time that

a moment before Jessica suddenly spoke

she suggested. “You said the tunnel has two entrances, right? Why not

thought of going back in those tunnels made me want

and Lori both wrapped their arms around

here for you,” Jessica said. “Whatever you need. That’s what

…

gave up entirely and just decided to wake up and get to the library early to work on my presentation. At least that could distract

to take a toll on me. No matter how much

on my hand, and then before I knew it I was fast

a start to the sound of the professor

Harper?” the

eyes. “I’m so sorry,” I said.

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

up partying, but what was I supposed to say after that? If I mentioned anything about the nightmares, I’d only get more ridicule, and by that point the professor had already taken my test and the rest of the class began

pride

as I walked across the quad. I was having nightmares, losing sleep, my grades were slipping, and of course there was my

wanted to do was go

exactly where I was heading when I heard someone say my name

turned around to see Justin standing behind

“Oh. Hey,” I said.

the dark circles under his eyes. For a moment we just stared at each other

he asked, pointing at the bench by the fountain. I nodded hesitantly

the other day was actually really helpful,” he said once we sat down. “I think it

brow. “What do you

didn’t know what they meant initially. They usually involved a man torturing me… But when you mentioned Edward, and then Enzo