My Hockey Alpha novel Chapter 168

Nina

“It’s settled, then,” Matt said. “Let it be known from here on out that Enzo Rivers is the Alpha of our new pack. Enzo… Bring us into a new age in which humans and werewolves can be allies against evil.”

There was a long silence after Matt spoke. I could feel my heart pounding excitedly in my chest at this new prospect of being one unified team; not just a team, but a pack, regardless of who was a werewolf or who was a human. Somehow, this gave me hope that we really could save the town on our own, without the Fullmoons or the Alpha King’s help. But Enzo still needed to agree to be our Alpha.

“Well, Enzo?” Matt said. “What do you think?”

Enzo paused for a long time, mulling over this opportunity. I almost felt as though I could hear the gears turning in his head. Finally, much to the group’s relief, he finally nodded.

“Alright,” he said finally. “I’ll do it.”

I couldn’t help but smile. Without a moment of hesitation, I felt myself jump up out of my chair and throw my arms around Enzo. I heard laughter, followed by the feeling of the rest of the pack crowding around us and joining in on the hug. Even Enzo let out a chuckle, and when I looked up at him I could see that there was a bit of a smile spread across his serious face.

Finally, everyone sat back down at Enzo’s request.

“We need to come up with a plan,” he said. “Nina, you said that there might be more of the antidote in the infirmary; are you sure about that?”

I nodded. “Tiffany mentioned that there was still some left. She only grabbed some of it, just in case. If we can get into the infirmary somehow without the Crescents seeing us, we can take whatever’s left.”

“Yeah, but then what?” Matt chimed in. “The antidote needs to be injected to work, right? We don’t have the time or the manpower to go around injecting all of the rogues. The Crescents could just create more in that time.”

I furrowed my brow. There was the possibility of going into the tunnels and doing it as fast as we could, but… No, that was too risky. We still wouldn’t be able to get to all of them before they would wake up and start alerting each other to our presence.

Suddenly, Jessica spoke up. “Who says it has to be injected?” she asked.

Enzo frowned, shaking his head. “Tiffany injected it into that one student,” he said. “And Nina injected you guys, right? I feel like Tiffany would have mentioned it if it could be administered some other way.”

Jessica pursed her lips. “It’s an antidote, not a vaccine. She might have injected it to make it work faster, but it can probably be ingested. It might take a little longer, but I could see it as a possibility.”

“Okay, so… We still haven’t answered the question of how we’ll administer it to all of the rogues in time,” Matt interrupted. “What are we gonna do? Run around giving them shot glasses full of the stuff and tell them ‘Hey, drink up’?”

Jessica rolled her eyes then. “I wasn’t saying that,” she insisted, but then her shoulders drooped a little bit. “But… I guess I don’t really have a plan, anyway.”