All Chapters of A Chance With The Hockey Alpha Captain: Chapter 71 - Chapter 80

Alpha Gordon’s POVI was sitting in the meeting room. A place where today the silence felt very unbearable. It was the kind that could scrape against your nerves until you wanted to tear something apart, just so that you could make it stop. The fire in the hearth had burned so low. It threw more shadows than light, and the smell of smoke filled the air around the room. I sat down at the head of the table. The seat that had been owned by Alphas for generations after generations. My fingers were drumming on the arm rest. Slow. Deliberate. Since the day that I was born, till now that I had become Alpha. Patience has never been one of my strengths. and tonight it was hanging by a thread. My mind was a mess of tangled thought. And even sitting on this chair that was so full of power, my mind was still a mess of tangled thoughts. The feared Alpha of the Dark monk pack, but today I didn’t have the answers to all the unanswered questions that were on the faces of the other people in the r

Cullen’s pov Cold floor. Hard. Filthy.Yeah. That's how all of my mornings started down here. But that was if I could even still call it morning. I didn’t see any light to even know what time of the day that it was. Because down here in the dungeon, time did not exist. It was just darkness. Dripping water. And me, slowly going insane. My body hurts. In so many places that I did not even know existed. Every breath that I took felt as if it was a punishment. I’d stopped counting days a long time ago. Maybe a week? Maybe two? All that I knew now was that the walls never changed. And neither did the silence too. I laid down very flat on my back. I was looking at the damp ceiling. One drop of water fell and it hit my cheek. Rolled down. And it disappeared into my hair. Great. Free bath. Because that was all the water that ever touched my body since I had been here. Something brushed past my arm. Rat. A bold little thing too. I didn’t even flinch. My wolf had gone quiet—weak, tired,

Cullen’s povAlright, let me start by saying—my patience? Gone. Completely gone.I’d been watching those guards for nights. Long, boring, soul-sucking nights.Every single one of them.I knew their laughter, their footsteps, even the sound of those stupid dice clattering on that old wooden table they loved so much.And then—silence.No more laughs. No more footsteps. Not even the squeak of a chair.That was my moment. My glorious, heart-pounding moment.Because when the silence came, it meant bedtime for them.And showtime for me.My heart was beating so fast and loud inside my chest. It could have even drummed its own war song. I reached under the loose stone. The one where I had hidden my little treasure. The tiny lock pick that I found. It was kind of bent. dull, miserable-looking. But hey, it was all I had.“This is it,” I whispered to myself. “No mistakes this time.”I started working on the chain around my wrists.Metal scraping, skin bleeding, breath coming out in fast little

Cullen’s POV I ran down the corridor very fast. The one that Ava had pointed to. It felt like my life depended on it, because somehow it did. The place was dim. It was lit up with only a few half dead torches. Ones that flickered as if they were already too tired to care. My feet were pounding on the floor. It was so loud that the way it was echoing almost made me scared. My heart? Racing. My brain? Not helping. I had no clue if I was even going the right way, but hey—Ava said this way, so I was trusting the crazy woman.Then I heard it.Voices. Laughter.Two women. Heading straight toward me. Of course. Because why not? The universe clearly enjoyed watching me panic.“Shit,” I whispered, spinning around like a lunatic looking for an escape.And there it was. A door with a big bold sign that screamed TOILET.Perfect. Exactly the kind of royal hideout I deserved.I dashed toward it, twisted the handle, and slipped inside just before the two voices got close. My back hit the door very

CULLEN’S POV The cold night air slapped my face the second Ava and I stepped out of the last palace gate.And honestly? I needed that slap.I’d been holding my breath like I was surviving on spare oxygen.For one whole second, I just stood there… breathing like a man who almost got murdered, resurrected, murdered again, and then given a thumbs-up to leave.I had already started running. Because they hs sounded the alarm. But I stopped when Ava called out to me again. “Cullen, you’re out. You hear me? OUT. Please stay safe. Hide anywhere. Just don’t get caught. I trust you. I’ll tell Selena everything you said.”I nodded so fast I almost gave myself a neck injury.My heart was still beating like crazy—fear, hope, the memory of Selena in that dungeon… everything mixed like a bad cocktail.“Thank you, Ava,” I said. “Really. For everything.”She gave me this tiny smile that said, I’m terrified but pretending I’m not, then shoved me lightly toward the woods.“Go. Run. Don’t stop.”So gue