My Hockey Alpha novel Chapter 46

Enzo

After I dropped Nina off at her dorm on the night she was attacked by Lisa, I immediately returned to the police station.

“I’m here to take her home,” I said, nodding my head toward the cell where Lisa was being held. She was sitting on the cot, visibly uncomfortable and covered in sweat. I had had my suspicions before, but now that I saw her, I could instantly tell what happened to her from a mile away: she had been bitten by a rogue werewolf. It would only be a matter of time before she turned into one herself and broke out of that cell, killing everyone in here. I had to get her to a witch before it was too late.

The female officer sitting at the front desk turned around and looked at Lisa, then looked back at me.

“It’s Enzo, right?” the officer said. “I’ve watched your hockey games. You’re really good!”

I sighed and repeated my statement. “I’m here to take her home. Is she free to go?”

“She’ll be free to go in the morning,” she replied. “Her toxicology report came back clean, but we think it’s best if we monitor her.”

“Listen,” I said, rubbing my tired eyes, “she’s my… girlfriend. She was traumatized as a child and has these episodes sometimes. Keeping her in a cell isn’t gonna help her come out of this episode.”

“We can have her transferred to the hospital,” the officer said, picking up the phone.

“No doctors!” I yelled, causing the officer’s eyes to widen and kicking myself for being so abrupt. “I mean… That won’t help, either. I think it’s best if I just take her home. She needs a familiar place, you know?”

The officer sighed and looked over her shoulder again at Lisa, then back to me and nodded, standing. “I’m not really supposed to do this, but since the other girl didn’t want to press charges, I guess I’ll let you take her,” she said. I let out a sigh of relief as she walked over and unlocked Lisa’s cell.

“You’re free to go home,” the officer said to Lisa, who didn’t even acknowledge her at all and just continued to stare blankly at the wall. “Um… Miss?”

“It’s alright,” I said, stepping past the officer and into the cell. “I got her.”

I walked over to Lisa and crouched in front of her. When she saw me, her eyes focused on me; her gaze was cloudy and distant, but she was still in there. Somewhere.

“I’m gonna help you, okay?” I said softly. She slowly nodded, then let me scoop her up off the cot and carry her out of the cell.

“Thanks, officer,” I said as I passed.

“Oh, it’s no problem,” the officer replied with a smile. “Anything for Enzo Rivers.”

…

More, now than ever, I was glad for the teleportation ability that had been passed down to me from my father; as soon as I was out of sight of the police station, I parked my bike along the side of the road, took Lisa in my arms, and in the blink of an eye I was at my father’s house.

Lewis and the rest of the pack were sitting around the fire pit once again, as they did every night, when I arrived.

“Holy shit!” Myra, the newest recruit, who also happened to be my cousin, said when she saw me holding Lisa.

Lewis jumped up and ran over to me, his eyes immediately showing recognition of the situation. “She was bitten, wasn’t she?” he asked.

I nodded. They all knew Lisa -- my father had forced me to be in a relationship with her for quite a while, after all -- and knew what would happen if a human was bitten by a rogue.

“Someone get a witch here, now!” Lewis yelled.

“Which witch?” Myra asked.