All Chapters of A Rival for the Hockey Alpha : Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

RivenThe air in the hockey basement was stinking with the smell of beer and other mixtures. The music in the background buzzed, resonating in my chest.Red plastic cups were everywhere. Guys were shouting, laughing, almost everyone was just going wild. The whole place was a mess, but it was our kind of mess. We were at the initiation party. And this was exactly what it always looked like.I was leaning against a wall, my arms crossed, just watching everything. My mind was on one thing and one thing alone. Sky.I couldn't tell where the audacity came from and I didn't know why I was nothing but a vegetable back there. But all I knew was that Ford loved it. And deep down maybe… just maybe… I found it fascinating.Just then, two of our teammates, Sean and Jade, started shouting over the music.“There they are! The new blood!” Jade yelled. He was pointing at Sky and Alex. The two of them were standing near the doorway, looking a bit lost. At the sight of them, a kind of stupid thrill ran

RivenThe music was loud, and crazy. Now the party was at its peak already. I was still drinking. But I had somehow isolated myself from everyone else. I was sitting somewhere at the edge of the crowd.The alcohol in my hand was doing nothing to my swirling mind. My mind was now a jungle of thoughts—the thoughts of what had happened today, the thought of what Sky had done back there in the locker room, the thought of him saying he liked boys and looking straight at me. And Jade calling him “Cute Face.”I looked around and saw him standing near a wall, with a drink in his hand. He was watching the party but he wasn’t a part of it. And then I saw the weird guy. The other one. Alex. He slipped into the space beside him.My wolf, Ford, growled in anger inside me. But I tried to ignore it, sending my eyes to anywhere except there. But somehow my eyes still found themselves looking at them, and this time, I saw Alex laugh with a playful look on his face, and Sky was laughing too.What could

SkyAfter the phone call, with I didn't know who, but with the high-pitched voice I knew. Even though I didn't know who, I knew that it was a female. I could see it in Riven—his whole mood changed. It was like he was switched immediately to Alpha mode. The whole thing I saw minutes ago was now replaced instantly with a cold, hard stare.Somehow my heart felt this ache. But I couldn't let it show. My face gave away nothing that was going on in my mind.He withdrew his hand which was holding mine. The warmth was immediately replaced by the cold air of the dark hallway as he walked off without looking back.For a moment I felt… I felt abandoned. My mind was a mess. My wolf whined in disappointment. I knew I had already said he was drunk, and I didn't want anything going on with him in that state. But it didn't mean that I wanted him gone. At least not like that, right?I straightened up my rumpled shirt from his grip earlier. I could still feel the ghost touch in the places his lips had

SkyI couldn't hold my laughter from how cutely frustrated I had made Riven. I enjoyed every bit of what I had just done to him. It gave me some kind of satisfaction. I felt satisfied in the sense that I had not been able to pay him back for just leaving me like that in that hallway for some ‘Luna chick’.But somehow I felt… hurt. My chest tightened, heat rising to my throat. His words echoed in my ears and like knives, they were slicing deeper into my skin. The more I tried to shake them off, the deeper the cut. He was furious, disgusted I could see it in his face. “Don't ever say this to anyone.” The words kept resounding in my ears. He wouldn't want anyone to know he had anything to do with me. And somehow, even if I failed to admit it, I felt hurt. My heart stung from just hearing that from him.I had not really done anything with him, not in the slightest.After I walked away with Alex, the party was still boozing, but my mind was not there with me anymore. The smell of spilled b

RivenAnd then I felt the urge to look again and I did. I looked at him again. And this time he… winked at me.A slow, gentle wink that was so… sexy. No, I didn’t think that. It was Ford. I moved my eyes from him. But my body hadn’t moved from the wink. I felt the strange, unwanted heat rising from within me. What was wrong with him? What was wrong with me?And at almost that instant, the class was over. I got up from my desk and rushed out the door. I had to go see Stiles.As I moved out of the class after packing up my stuff, I found Sky already standing outside with the nerd-looking guy from the other day. I could only imagine the kind of torture it would be for the nerd guy, having an annoying jerk as a friend.But for now there was only one thing my mind should be on, Stiles. I had to go and see him.The walk from the class to Stiles’s dorm was quite short thanks to my wandering heart.I got to Stiles’s door and the door was unlocked. I walked into the room and damn… his room was