My Hockey Alpha novel Chapter 102

Enzo

I should’ve known that Lisa couldn’t be trusted. I thought for sure that I had her on my side thanks to my own abilities, but as it turned out, whatever training Edward had given her made her completely invulnerable to me -- and, in turn, her own hypnotic words lulled me into a false sense of security.

She led me through the woods behind the cabins, taking me on a winding path that eventually led to a small hatch in the ground. She opened the hatch and climbed down a ladder, and I stupidly followed.

“What is this place?” I asked as we entered a narrow tunnel at the bottom of the ladder.

“It’s Edward’s secret hideout, if you will,” she said. “Do you know that the school actually used to be a sanatorium back in the day? Well, this was where they used to transport the dead bodies.”

It was now that I started to realize that following Lisa could end in disaster, but what else was I supposed to do? There was no other possible way to find Nina, and as Lisa led me through the maze of tunnels, I knew that I could easily get lost in here if I tried to find my way on my own.

Eventually, the tunnel widened. We passed by rows of solid metal doors, each with an illuminated keypad on them. The bright fluorescent lights gave the place an almost scientific feel, but the sound of dripping water was a constant reminder that we were actually in a glorified sewer.

Finally, Lisa stopped in front of a door. She turned to shoot me a grin, then knocked on the door.

“She’s in there,” Fio said inside of me. “I can sense her. And… there’s another presence inside of her. Her wolf may emerge soon.”

I didn’t have a chance to ask about Nina’s wolf; I was too focused on getting her out of here. As I heard a bit of a commotion inside the room, I took a few steps back to get out of sight of the door and began to borrow some of Fio’s power so that I could quickly shift and even kill Lisa and Edward if I had to.

What happened next happened so quickly.

The door slid open with a mechanical whirring sound. Lisa stepped inside and the door shut again. I heard a few words exchanged before the door slid open once more, and I made my move. I quickly stepped in through the doorway and began to shift.

“Let Nina go before I kill you,” I said.

But then, I felt a needle in my arm. I looked down to see Lisa pushing the needle in with a grin on her face.

“What the--”

I tried to shift, but I couldn’t. I lurched away from Lisa and toward Edward, who stepped out of the way with an absurdly casual demeanor. I fell face forward as my limbs became too heavy to move, my ears filling with the sound of Nina’s muffled screaming. As I fell, my head faced a closet on the far wall. Its doors rattled as Nina pounded on them.

“Nina…” I whispered. I had to get to her. I tried to push myself up, but I quickly fell back down as Lisa and Edward only laughed at me. My body quickly became nothing but dead weight as I tried to drag myself across the floor. Fio’s presence turned into a whisper, then he was gone altogether.

And then…

Darkness.

…

I woke up in a blindingly bright cell to the feeling of something hitting me on the side of the head. As my eyes squinted against the bright lights, I felt someone grab my hair and yank my head back.