My Hockey Alpha novel Chapter 244

Nina

Enzo jabbed the needle into Selena’s thigh and pushed the plunger down, injecting her with the bright blue serum. There was a brief moment of realization before the agony began.

Selena started to scream in agony, and so did I. It felt as though my entire body was being burned from the inside. Surely, within a few moments I would be dead from the pain. The two of us writhed on the floor, until I eventually felt Enzo’s arms wrap around me and he pulled me up into his lap.

It felt like an eternity, but the pain eventually stopped. Selena almost instantly scrambled to her feet, ranting and raving about how Enzo’s poison didn’t work on her.

But I knew that it did.

“You okay?” Enzo’s voice echoed in my head. I nodded slowly and subtly; I didn’t feel any different. I could still feel a flicker of my wolf inside of me. If I still had my wolf, then did Selena still have hers?

She raised her hand, tears streaming down her cheeks, and tried to cast a spell on us. But it didn’t work. No matter how hard she tried, it didn’t work.

“W-What did you do to me?!” she screamed, trying over and over again to cast the spell. “What did you do?!”

Enzo let out a low chuckle. At the same time, I felt the weight on my body lift; whatever spell Selena had been using before to keep us pinned to the floor dissipated now that she didn’t have her powers, and Enzo stood and helped me up along with him.

“Feel any different?” Enzo asked Selena.

Selena began to scream even louder. She instantly fell to the ground and began pounding her fists and kicking her legs, almost like a child throwing a tantrum. “Where’s my wolf?!” she shrieked, her voice shrill and grating. “What did you do?!”

Enzo turned to look at me, and I nodded. Selena was human; there was no doubt about it. Somehow, the antidote was capable of curing regular werewolves, not just rogues. I was impressed and shocked by Enzo’s quick thinking. I never would have considered using the antidote against Selena; I always thought that it was just useful against rogues. When we infused the sprinklers with the antidote, it didn’t turn Enzo into a human, but I realized now that it must have needed to be injected — and probably with a higher dose — to work on full-blown werewolves.

Suddenly, Enzo grabbed me around the waist, pulling me close, and kissed me deeply. Selena’s screams faded away, and as we kissed I felt the taste of salty tears on my tongue. I was crying, not from sadness, but from happiness.

“See?” Enzo said when we pulled away. “I told you to trust me.”

I stifled a laugh. “You’re always right.”

Thanks to Enzo’s quick thinking, we had stopped Selena without anyone having to die. And maybe someday, if she ever changed for the better, I could turn her back into a werewolf with my Claiming ability. But for now, we needed to take her to my father.

“Let’s take her to the Alpha King,” I said over Selena’s screams and cries. “He’ll know what to do with her.”

Enzo scooped Selena up off of the ground, kicking and screaming, and slung her over his shoulder like a sack of flour. He then marched over to the banquet hall doors and flung them open.

In the entryway, quite a few dazed guards stood around looking utterly confused. They all watched in awe as Enzo marched past them with Selena over his shoulder.

“P-Princess?” one of the guards said. But he wasn’t looking at Selena; he was looking at me.