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?”

You get real good at pickin’ out bullets so it don’t spoil the meat.” My stomach turned at

and I let him, although it made me wince

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

and helped me sit up, and once I’d chugged an

lookin’ mighty healed already for someone who

eyes widened. I couldn’t tell

for answers. “Well, either

a skip away from meeting the big old

my head back on 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.

hadn’t come up yet,

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

Then, whispering: “I came up with that one

couple’s good humor, but at the same time,

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, and well… You know how the folks ‘round here are. They

on the way,” I replied. “I can tell you that

nothing. There was a bit of

with us, right, honey?” she

my head. “I

probably beyond the point of help,” Dan

my head again. “No. There’s an

yourself is gonna do?” Laura asked, sounding a bit flabbergasted now. “Cure everyone in town?” I swallowed; I hadn’t thought that

you back to town if you really want. It’s your

fine,” I said.

her mouth to speak, but shut it again and turned around in her seat. Dan nodded once more and shut the door, then came around and got back into the driver’s seat. No one spoke as he pulled away from the side of the road, then swung the truck back around

on the outskirts. I got out first, limping on my injured leg despite Laura’s protests, and grabbed my backpack out of the back of the

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