My Hockey Alpha by Eve Above Story PDF

Chapter 0480

Enzo

The air in the gym was thick with the stench of sweat. The fluorescent lights beamed down from the ceiling, casting a whitish hue over the various machines and free weights that occupied the room. The soundtrack for that day was the usual mix of grunts and sparse conversations, the clatter of iron against iron, and whatever was currently blasting through the sound system-at that moment it was a hit rap song, but I wasn't listening.

I was in the midst of my third set of bench presses, my fingers wrapped tightly around the barbell. The cold steel felt reassuring, grounding even, as I inhaled deeply and lifted it off the rack. My muscles strained under the weight, each rep a battle of will as much as it was of strength. I was going hard, much harder than usual.

"Damn, man, are you trying to lift the whole gym or what?" Matt's voice broke through the haze of my concentration.

I lowered the barbell back onto the rack with a grunt, sitting up to look at him. Matt was leaning against the wall, water bottle in hand, his expression a mix of admiration and concern.

chuckle as

through his eyes. "You've been hitting

of sorts when it

got a lot on my mind,"

obvious. You gonna let me in on what's been bugging you, or

a hand through my sweat-soaked hair. "Nina thought she might be pregnant. Turns out she

that a

gym where a couple was working out

getting my career to where I

face easing into a more contemplative expression. "That's a whole lot

a dad. It's strange, Matt. I never really thought about having a family until Nina and I got married, but now, it's like it's constantly