My Hockey Alpha Chapter 123

Beauty and the Alpha

Nina

Enzo and I spun on the ice and laughed together until we became so dizzy that we spun out of control and fell down. This only made us laugh harder, and as I regained my composure, I pushed myself up onto my palms and couldn’t help but smile down at Enzo.

He smiled back up at me as well. For a split second, everything felt okay, and it felt as though both of us temporarily forgot about his mate.

But that split second quickly ended. Our smiles faded. Enzo cleared his throat, then helped me stand up and placed me back on the carpet outside the rink.

“Thank you,” he said, averting his gaze to the ice. “I feel a lot better now.”

I swallowed the lump in my throat and nodded. “Any time,” I replied. “I’ll be here to help as much as I can until you get your abilities back.”

The following night, it was time for the next game in the tournament. It was a frigid Saturday night, and was even forecasted to snow a little. Lori and Jessica were waiting for me when I emerged, and we walked to the arena together.

“Have you thought about what we suggested?” Lori asked, her breath coming out in little white clouds in the cold air as we walked.

I shrugged. “A little, I guess. I just don’t know if I can go down there.”

“What about Tiffany or someone else?” Jessica chimed in. “You said there’s an entrance to the tunnels in her supply closet?”

shook my head in disagreement. “I don’t wanna make her go down

finding evidence of Edward’s crimes is

— even if they did find him, I highly doubted they could keep him locked up for long before he would find a way to escape. Second, while I trusted Tiffany,

to my friends, so I just nodded as the hockey

we arrived, there were more

together. “They’re dedicated, doing this out here in the

and ignoring the snide comments from the protesters as we passed. All I could do at this point was ignore them and do

than it was outside when we entered, but still cold. I said goodbye and parted ways with my friends to go stand at my post. Tiffany had been too busy in the infirmary lately with the cold and flu season upon us to join me at any of the games recently, but had entrusted the job to me. By this point, I knew what I was doing

that some of this increase in traffic was actually just more protesters coming in to hold up big anti-werewolf banners for the duration of the game. The red-haired girl was at the forefront of

out at the back of the line. When he came out, the red-haired girl and her posse began to boo loudly,

the center of the rink. The crowd started to quiet down aside

my lips as I watched. They stayed like that for some time, just silently showing their solidarity with Enzo at the center of the line. They stared quietly at

gone. I couldn’t help but smile, and

again, peace won

announcer called out the other team. I watched, biting my fingernails, as the other team filed out onto the ice and got into position.

broader. He skated out to his position like a human tank, his cold eyes fixed

Enzo to look shocked or uncomfortable, but much to

He was smirking.

letting his team do most of the work, but Enzo and Matt were fast. They flicked the puck expertly back and forth between the two of

me. I looked over my

game. “I don’t know what happened. I mean, he

for drinking the Mad Wolf

furrowing my brow at Justin’s sudden

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