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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?”

so it don’t spoil the

him, although it made me wince and grit my teeth. He eyed my

head feel, sweetheart?” the woman asked. “I’m Laura, by the way. That’s my husband, Dan, although I guess I already told you his name, didn’t I? Anyway, we found you last night in real

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 confused expression

leg’s lookin’ mighty healed already for someone who was shot less

couldn’t tell

looking for answers. “Well, either

away from meeting the big

my leg was still unbearable, and when I searched for my wolf’s presence, it was nothing more than a

then peered out the window. It was just barely morning; the sun still hadn’t come up yet, but it was bright enough to see everything through the slight tinge of

then looked around. “Just 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’

“I came

but at the same time, I knew I

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

I replied.

said nothing. There

us, right, honey?” she asked.

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

“Hon’, I’m afraid your friends are probably beyond the point of help,” Dan said. “You were the first uninfected human

head again. “No. There’s

town?” I swallowed; I hadn’t thought that far ahead. I only cared about my friends, and I

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

I said. “Thank

and got back into the driver’s seat. No one spoke as

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 grabbed my backpack out of the back