My Hockey Alpha



Chapter 0755 Nina

"Goodbye, Nina. We'll miss you."

Jessica and Lori held me tightly just outside the swirling portal, tears in their eyes. I had already cried all of the tears I possibly could, and felt utterly dried up; but it didn't make their leaving hurt any less.

"I'll miss you guys, too," I said softly. "But we can visit."

Luke, who was standing off to the side, nodded. "We'll come every week. I'll make sure of it."

I managed the tiniest smile and took a step back. "Thank you."

As I watched my friends go through the portal, I knew that a big change was ahead of me. I was going to be staying here, in the supernatural realm with my parents and my brother, for the foreseeable future. It was funny how things did a 180, and so quickly, too.

But I had no desire to return to Mountainview. Not now, at least. And I especially didn't have any desire to return to the home that Enzo and I once shared.

It had been three days since he had rejected me as his mate. Three days, and the pain was still just as profound as it had been that instant that he had said the words.

"Nina, I reject you as my mate."

I could still hear those words clear as day, echoing constantly through my mind. My wolf had turned weak, and could barely even speak to me. Shifting was entirely out of the question.

I kept telling myself that he would come to his senses and take back what he had said, but with each passing day, with each moment that we came closer to his departure, he still wouldn't speak to me.

More than once, I found myself standing outside of the infirmary, hoping beyond hope that we could talk.

And more than once, someone would appear to pull me away. Not once did Enzo sense my presence and call out to me. Not once did he ask to speak with me.

Today, he was scheduled to leave. My father didn't say much about it, but I had a sense that Enzo had been exiled. This was it; this was the end.

To help keep my mind off of things, I lost myself in that strange journal. I spent hours sitting at my desk, trying desperately to decipher what was written inside. But each time, the book would snap shut just as it had when I tried to decipher it with Tyler.

I was beginning to wonder if I was missing something, or maybe if the time wasn't right. There was clearly some spell on the book, something to keep prying eyes from figuring out what was written in it. Maybe I needed to dispel whatever it was before I could get to work.

"Dammit," I muttered as the book snapped itself shut again, nearly slamming into my fingers in the process. "Still won't spill your secrets, huh?"

I leaned back in my chair, running a hand through my hair. The book seemed to be mocking me as it sat there in silence, firmly shut. I knew it would be hours, maybe even more, until it allowed itself to be opened again.noveldrama

As I sat there, trying to distract myself with this strange book, there was a knock on the door. A moment later, I saw my mother peek her head in.

"Nina," s

," she said softly.

As soon as I saw the look on my mother's face, I knew what was happening; it was time. Enzo had overstayed his welcome in my father's house, and it was time for him to leave. If things went down the way I figured they would, this was it.

This would be the last time that I would ever see Enzo Rivers again.

"No," I whispered, standing.

My mother nodded with tears in her eyes. "I'm sorry, honey. I tried speaking to your father, but.."

"Where will he go?" I asked. My voice was rising slightly by now. "He can't just be exiled like this."

My mother said nothing, which only meant one thing: it was too late. I realized then, in the back of my mind, that a small part of me had held onto the hope that Enzo would eventually come to his senses and not leave at all.

But it was too late.

"No!" I cried out.

Before my mother could stop me, I suddenly bolted past her. Her calls faded into the distance as I bolted down the hall, down the stairs, and out the door. "Enzo!" I called out. "Enzo, where are you?!"

Up ahead was where I saw him; he was standing on the lawn, a single backpack slung over his shoulder. When he saw me coming, he froze.

"Enzo!" I cried as I ran toward him. "Enzo, don't go!"

"Nina!" my mother called after me. I heard her voice mingling with that of my brother and my father; they were coming to stop me, but I wouldn't let them. I had to make Enzo stay. I just had to.

"Enzo, wait!"

He just stood there, his tall form growing the closer I came. Finally, I stopped just a few feet away, panting heavily. "Enzo, please," I said. "This isn't you. Please, you don't want to do this."

He said nothing. The space between us seemed to stretch into eternity, a void growing between us that had never been there before. All at once, it felt as if I was looking into both my husband's and a stranger's eyes.

And his face betrayed nothing.

"Enzo, please"

"Nina, step away," my father's voice rang out from behind me. "It's not safe."

"Enzo..."

The man who was once my husband and my fated mate continued to stand there, just staring at me with a stony expression on his face and a faraway look in his eyes. For a moment, just a moment, I saw a look of what could only be sorrow and regret flash through.

But it was gone just as quickly as it came.

"you heard your father, Nina," he said, slowly and deliberately as a vengeful sneer began to spread across his lips, those lips that once beamed at me whenever I walked into the room. "I'm too dangerous,"

"Enzo, wait!"

It was too late. Enzo turned on his heel and walked away.

As I watched him walk into the forest, I felt my soul rend into a million pieces once again. The world tilted, my knees grew weak, the sky went black. Before Enzo's form even fully disappeared into the treeline, I felt myself fall to the grass.

"Nina... Nina, it'll be okay... It's over now..."

The soothing words that my mother murmured to me meant nothing; how could it be over? How could this pain ever end?

But it didn't matter how I felt or what I thought, because they were sedating me once more. Another needle was stuck into my arm, the world grew fuzzy around the edges, and once again, the pain began to disconnect from my mind.

The last thing I saw before everything went black was Enzo stopping to take one last look at me from the treeline, and then he disappeared into the forest.