My Hockey Alpha Chapter 151

A Promise

Nina

My heart dropped at the girl’s words.

“Too merciful?” I asked. “What did I do to you to deserve any of this?”

The girl merely shrugged. She seemed so nonchalant that it made me sick, but before I could say anything else, she suddenly looked at her watch. “Oh!” she said, grinning at me. “It looks like it’s time for me to go. Enzo will be ready for me any minute.”

I opened my mouth to ask her what she meant, but before I could, she opened a portal and vanished. Was she meeting Enzo to marry him already? I felt a pit form in my stomach at the thought. What if they mated and he forgot all about me, leaving me in here until the day I died?

No, I thought to myself. I couldn’t lose hope.

as though there was no real passage of time; the sun never rose or set, and it

to see if there was a way to leave, but the girl, whose name I still didn’t know, wasn’t lying when she said I wouldn’t be able to get out. There seemed to be some sort of invisible force field around the place, like a spell had been cast on it. I could still walk out a ways into the woods all around the cabin, but about half a mile into the woods was when I would encounter the invisible dome keeping me there. No amount of force could break

had it taken for her to build this place? Or was it even a physical place at all? Perhaps a witch made it with magic, which would explain the invisible barrier. Sometimes I wondered if

Thankfully, I didn’t really feel tired, so I just stayed awake most of the time and read books or walked around. The only thing that kept me going was knowing that Enzo would come

I suddenly shot up in

that, but I smelled something familiar, warm, and

flinging the door open. I felt my heart leap as I saw him standing on the lawn, looking confused — but

hand shot out and she grabbed a fistful of the

said, holding up my hands in surrender. “What

and because I don’t want anything to happen with my

blinking as I

open and shoved me outside. I fell on my

me. He helped me stand, then

me,” I murmured

“Hurry it up,” she said, her tone of voice grating and annoyed. “We’ve got a dinner to get

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