My Hockey Alpha novel Chapter 287

Nina

Why wasn’t I dying yet?

Selena had died at the Luna’s hands. The prophecy foretold that one twin must not live without the other… But I felt fine. Selena was dead, and I was still standing. I looked up at Enzo, who looked back down at me with an equal amount of surprise, confusion, and joy.

Suddenly, I heard a booming voice thundering across the battlefield.

“Where is my daughter?!” a loud, male voice called. I whipped around to see none other than the Alpha King staggering through the doorway of the mansion. He leaned his hand against the doorframe, and as his eyes scanned the scene before him, his face became wrought with worry. His eyes then flickered down to see his dead daughter, Selena, laying on the steps with a gaping hole in her chest.

The Alpha King let out a wild yell and rushed down the steps, falling to his knees beside his daughter. He didn’t even care to look in the Luna’s direction; he knew what she had done. Now that he had been freed from her spell, there was no doubt that he remembered everything. All of her manipulation, her evil deeds, her murders.

Slowly, the Alpha King then looked up at me and Enzo. His eyes flickered with recognition and he stood, walking over to me. As he did, I felt my heart catch in my throat. Would he blame me for this? Did he even remember me from the last time that I saw him, or did the Luna’s spell wipe it out of his memory?

For a long time, we just stared at each other. The air fell silent. Everything else fell away, leaving nothing but the two of us staring into each other’s eyes.

“Nina,” he whispered. “Is that you? You’re alive?”

I slowly nodded my head. All at once, the Alpha King threw his arms around me and pulled me in tightly. “All these years,” he said, “I thought that the Crescents had killed you… But you were alive. Yes, I remember now… I remember you coming into my throne room, not long ago…”

“The Luna had you under a spell,” I said through my tears. “You didn’t recognize me. You didn’t recognize anyone.”

The Alpha King froze, then slowly looked down at his dead wife. He didn’t seem sad in the slightest. In fact, he just seemed free. “Ah, yes,” he said, taking a step back. “She did have me under a spell. She had all of us under a spell. And Selena…” He looked over at Selena’s body. Luke had begun covering it with his jacket, but looked up when he noticed the Alpha King staring at him, and froze. “My wife did this, didn’t she?”

I nodded. No more words would come out, but the Alpha King — my father — knew what I was going to ask.

“You won’t die,” he said, his voice low and even-toned.

My eyes widened. “But the prophecy…”

“The prophecy is poppycock,” he said. “Just before you were taken, your mother put a protection charm on both of you. She knew that the Crescents were going to come; she had seen it in her visions. The prophecy was fabricated to keep you safe.”

Suddenly, I felt a massive weight lift off of my chest. And then… Everything began to go dark. My knees buckled beneath me, and the last thing I felt was the feeling of Enzo’s arms catching me.

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