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My Hockey Alpha Chapter 155

A Light in the Darkness

Nina

I was jostled awake by a bump and a swaying sensation, followed by the feeling of a searing pain shooting through my leg and the sound of a car engine. I groaned as my eyes flickered open.

“Oh! Honey, she’s awake.”

“Hold on. I’m pullin’ over. Coast clear out there?”

“Hmm… Mhm. I don’t see anything.”

As my eyes adjusted, I saw the forms of two people sitting in front of me. Judging from the long leather seat beneath me and the two seats in front, I was in the back of a car. A truck, too, I surmised from the hollow and tinny sound of the engine as it sputtered to a stop.

I groaned again. The man in the driver’s seat got out of the car while the woman in the passenger seat turned around to face me. I blinked a few times, and as her face came into focus, I saw that she was an older woman with graying brown hair and a round, soft face.

“You sure woke up quick,” she said with a smile, reaching out and squeezing my hand. Her hand was warm and soft in a motherly sort of way, and it eased some of my anxieties.

“Wh-Where…”

The door by my feet opened. I looked up to see an older man standing there. He was wearing a flannel shirt tucked into a pair of jeans, which emphasized his slight beer belly. He had a baseball cap on and had a gray mustache on his upper lip.

“Howdy, young lady,” he said with a grin. “Let me see that leg. That okay?”

I felt myself stiffen, and instinctively looked up at the woman. “It’s okay, hon’,” she said softly. “Dan’s real good at this sort of thing. Aren’t you, honey?”

huntin’ and trappin’ll do that to ya. You get real good at pickin’ out bullets so it don’t spoil the meat.” My stomach turned at the thought, but Dan only

a little bit, and I let him, although it made me wince and grit my teeth. He eyed my wound

way. That’s my husband, Dan, although I guess I already told you his name, didn’t I? Anyway, we found you

I croaked. Laura smiled and nodded. Dan held out his hand for me and helped me sit up, and once I’d chugged an entire bottle of water in one go, he pointed at my leg with a

who was shot less than

I couldn’t tell these people about my

looking for answers. “Well, either

more than a hop ‘n a skip away from meeting the big old man in the sky,” she said, pointing upwards

leg was still unbearable, and when I searched for my wolf’s

out the window. It was just barely morning; the sun still hadn’t come up yet, but it was

a few miles north of town,” he said. “We’re headin’ out that way where there ain’t any of them… What are we callin’

said proudly. Then, whispering: “I

help but smile a little bit at the older couple’s good humor, but at the same time, I knew I needed

of the towns in the nearest fifty-mile radius are crawlin’ with the Prowlers. I dunno if the rest of the world even knows, if I’m bein’ honest. We’ve always been sorta remote out here, and well… You know how the folks ‘round here are. They rather take things into their own

way,” I replied. “I

nothing. There was a bit of a silence before Laura

right, honey?” she asked. “You don’t

eyes were pleading and full of worry, but I shook my head. “I can’t. I have to

“Hon’, I’m afraid your friends are probably beyond the point of

my head again. “No. There’s an

gonna do?” Laura asked, sounding a bit flabbergasted now. “Cure everyone in town?” I swallowed; I hadn’t thought that far ahead. I only cared about my friends, and I wasn’t going to take no for

to town if you really want. It’s your decision. But with that

fine,” I said. “Thank

around and got back into the driver’s seat. No one spoke as he pulled away from the side of the road, then

got out first, limping on my injured