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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?”

real good at pickin’ out bullets so it don’t spoil the meat.” My stomach turned at the thought, but Dan only chuckled.

the white bandage around my leg a little bit, and I let him, although it

my husband, Dan, although I guess I already told you his name, didn’t I? Anyway, we

held out his hand for me and helped me sit up, and once

already for someone who was shot less than twelve hours ago,” he

couldn’t tell these people about my

looking for answers. “Well, either way,” he continued, “you’re lucky we

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

the headrest. The pain in my leg was still unbearable, and when I searched for my wolf’s presence, it was nothing more than a flicker. She must have used up any strength she had left to help

barely morning; the sun still hadn’t come up yet, but

a few miles north of town,” he said. “We’re headin’ out that way where there

Laura said proudly. Then, whispering: “I came up with

humor, but at the same time, I knew I needed to get home. I couldn’t leave town, not with

little ways further north. This… disease, or whatever it is, spreads like wildfire. Just before the news stations went out, I saw that all 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,

on the way,” I replied. “I

said nothing. There was a bit of a silence before Laura

right, honey?” she asked.

of worry, but I shook my head. “I can’t. I have to go back for

probably beyond the point of help,” Dan said. “You were the first uninfected human we saw in

shook my head again.

do you think a single little girl like yourself is 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 an answer. Dan, seeing this, finally nodded slowly and

to town if you really want. It’s your

fine,” I said.

turned around in her seat. Dan nodded once more and shut the door, then came around and got back into the driver’s

to town, so it didn’t take long before Dan stopped the truck right on the outskirts. I got out first, limping on my injured leg despite Laura’s protests, and