Chapter 168 The Plan

“It’s settled, then,” Matt said. “Let it be known from here on out that Enzo Rivers is the Alpha of our new

pack. Enzo… Bring us into a new age in which humans and werewolves can be allies against evil.”

There was a long silence after Matt spoke. I could feel my heart pounding excitedly in my chest at this

new prospect of being one unified team; not just a team, but a pack, regardless of who was a werewolf

or who was a human. Somehow, this gave me hope that we really could save the town on our own,

without the Fullmoons or the Alpha King’s help. But Enzo still needed to agree to be our Alpha.

“Well, Enzo?” Matt said. “What do you think?”

Enzo paused for a long time, mulling over this opportunity. I almost felt as though I could hear the gears

turning in his head. Finally, much to the group’s relief, he finally nodded.

“Alright,” he said finally. “I’ll do it.”

I couldn’t help but smile. Without a moment of hesitation, I felt myself jump up out of my chair and

throw my arms around Enzo. I heard laughter, followed by the feeling of the rest of the pack crowding

around us and joining in on the hug. Even Enzo let out a chuckle, and when I looked up at him I could

see that there was a bit of a smile spread across his serious face.

Finally, everyone sat back down at Enzo’s request.

“We need to come up with a plan,” he said. “Nina, you said that there might be more of the antidote in

the infirmary; are you sure about that?”

I nodded. “Tiffany mentioned that there was still some left. She only grabbed some of it, just in case. If

we can get into the infirmary somehow without the Crescents seeing us, we can take whatever’s left.”

“Yeah, but then what?” Matt chimed in. “The antidote needs to be injected to work, right? We don’t have

the time or the manpower to go around injecting all of the rogues. The Crescents could just create

more in that time.”

I furrowed my brow. There was the possibility of going into the tunnels and doing it as fast as we could,

but… No, that was too risky. We still wouldn’t be able to get to all of them before they would wake up

and start alerting each other to our presence.

Suddenly, Jessica spoke up. “Who says it has to be injected?” she asked.

Enzo frowned, shaking his head. “Tiffany injected it into that one student,” he said. “And Nina injected

you guys, right? I feel like Tiffany would have mentioned it if it could be administered some other way.”

Jessica pursed her lips. “It’s an antidote, not a vaccine. She might have injected it to make it work

faster, but it can probably be ingested. It might take a little longer, but I could see it as a possibility.”

“Okay, so… We still haven’t answered the question of how we’ll administer it to all of the rogues in

time,” Matt interrupted. “What are we gonna do? Run around giving them shot glasses full of the stuff

and tell them ‘Hey, drink up’?”

Jessica rolled her eyes then. “I wasn’t saying that,” she insisted, but then her shoulders drooped a little

bit. “But… I guess I don’t really have a plan, anyway.”

There was a long silence. No one spoke for a while as we all puzzled over how to administer the

antidote to the rogues all at once. I started to feel my heart sink as I slowly realized that there really

was no realistic way to do it.

“The sprinkler system.”

We all looked up and at Lori, who was standing there with her hands on her hips and a righteous look

on her face. “We can use the sprinkler system. I saw that the tunnels had a whole system on the

ceilings. If we infuse the water tank that feeds the sprinkler system, then pull the fire alarm, it’ll go off

and soak all of the rogues.”

“Babe…” Jessica said, sitting upright with wide eyes. “You’re a genius.”

“I know,” Lori replied, flicking her black hair over her shoulder with a smirk. I glanced over at Enzo, who

was only nodding to himself with his hand on his chin. He caught me looking and met my gaze, and as

he did, a smile spread across his face.

“I think that’s an excellent idea,” he said. “If we go during the day, all of the rogues will be in the

tunnels. We can trap them in there. Of course, it might not work, but… It’s better than nothing.”

“So it’s settled, then,” Matt replied. “But if we’re going to do this, we need to get it done today. I have a

feeling that those Crescents that were looking for us last night are preparing to do something. They

might even know we’re here and went to get more backup, for all we know.”

Enzo nodded, then looked back at me. “Nina, how many Crescents do you think you saw in the

infirmary yesterday?”

“Five, maybe six?” I replied.

“Okay,” Enzo continued, then turned to Matt. “Matt, can you and the rest of the hockey team lure the

Crescents away? Just get them to start chasing you, then run and don’t stop running. I trust that you

guys can handle them if you need to.”

“Sure thing,” Matt replied. “Those guys aren’t the smartest. We’ve already dealt with them a couple of

times.”

Enzo nodded approvingly before turning back to look at me. “I’ll go with you to the infirmary. We’ll close

up the tunnel doors, assuming they’re still on their hinges, then infuse the water tank like Lori

suggested. I know there’s one in the alleyway between the infirmary and the hockey rink, and I’m sure

it supplies all of the sprinklers in those buildings.”

Suddenly, Jessica spoke up. Her voice shook a little as she glanced nervously over at her bedroom

door, where Bryce had locked James up earlier. “What about… him?” she asked, lowering her voice.

I frowned, following her gaze, as did the others. It seemed that we almost completely forgot about

James, and it probably wouldn’t be a good idea to leave him alone here. Finally, swallowing, I turned

back to look at Jessica and Lori.

“Can you guys stay here and watch him and the apartment?” I asked. I didn’t want them to think that I

was excluding them, but someone needed to watch James and I knew that Lori and Jessica would

never separate. All of the hockey players needed to be focused on luring the Crescents away, and I

needed to go to the infirmary just in case the sprinkler system plan didn’t work and I would potentially

have to inject some rogues.

Thankfully, both of them nodded. “We’ll stay,” Lori said. “It’s probably the most help we can offer, seeing

as how we’re not werewolves or anything.”

I nodded, feeling relieved. Everyone looked up at Enzo then, who was staring down at the counter with

a thoughtful expression on his face. I reached out and touched his hand to break him out of his deep

thought, and when he snapped back to reality, I saw that he seemed to have a bit of light in his eyes for

the first time in a long time.

Being an Alpha of his own pack seemed to suit him