My Hockey Alpha novel Chapter 202

Nina

I searched high and low through the cabins in the hopes of finding some sort of lead on where Luke was, but unfortunately there was nothing. It seemed that the Fullmoons cleaned up every scrap, every little thing that would have indicated that they were even living here to begin with, and now they were gone.

I just hoped that Luke was okay. Hopefully, Myra or one of the others who didn’t agree with Lewis managed to set him free. I had to let that hope be the thing to keep me going for now, because I had a lot to do.

As I made my way back to the campus, I decided to head over to the infirmary to try one last time to finish the antidote.

And, unexpectedly, my friends were already there. When I arrived, Lori, Jessica, and Matt were all standing outside, waiting for me.

“We were just looking for you,” Lori said as I approached. “Where were you?”

“I just walked out to the cabins,” I replied as I unlocked the door. “It looks like the Fullmoons are already gone.”

My friends’ eyes all widened. “What?” Matt asked, his voice sounding disbelieving. “Seriously? They just up and left?”

I nodded as I walked into the infirmary and flicked on the lights. When I explained what Myra had told me the last time I talked to her, my friends were in an even greater state of disbelief. It really did seem as though Lewis fully planned on taking over as the Fullmoon Alpha, and there was no knowing exactly where they went.

But, on the bright side, the antidote was almost complete.

Matt, Lori, and Jessica all watched with bated breath a little while later as I dropped the last chemical into the solution. This was the final moment — the secret ingredient. I had found the name of the compound jotted down on a scrap of paper, shoved into the back of one of Tiffany’s drawers. There was no way of knowing whether it would work based on a single sticky note, but I had to try.

All four of us went silent as I dropped the compound into the solution.

It fizzed at first. My eyes widened as the solution began to turn black, and I took a step backwards, afraid of whatever I had just mixed.

But then, slowly… The solution turned a bright, glowing shade of blue.

“Holy shit,” Jessica whispered. “Nina… I think you did it.”

I couldn’t help it. A wild, ecstatic yell escaped my mouth and I jumped up and down, grinning from ear to ear. My friends joined me, high-fiving me and congratulating me on my breakthrough. Of course, there was still the question of how we would test it, but I was almost completely certain that I had replicated the antidote.

After we tested it, we would only have to produce more, and then we could distribute it and save our neighbors from being stuck as rogues forever.

But that wasn’t the only thing on my mind. As I bottled up the antidote and put it away safely for testing, my smile eventually fell. I knew I needed to tell my friends about Selena and Enzo; I just hoped that they believed me and that they wouldn’t blame my headspace on the fumes from trying to make the antidote.