My Hockey Alpha by Eve Above Story PDF

Chapter 0519

Nina

The door creaked open, and I tensed, expecting to see the stern faces of my parents, armed with a lecture or two.

Instead, it was Enzo. His eyes met mine, and he looked softer than I'd ever seen him. Tyler gave me a knowing smile, touched my hand briefly, and left, closing the door behind him.

Enzo hesitated, his eyes shifting from me to the ground. The room seemed to swallow us both, making his silence fill the space like thick fog.

"Do you think I'm crazy?" I finally blurted out, unable to stand the tension any longer.

He looked up, his eyes locking onto mine. "Put on something suitable for going outside," he said, his voice gentle but firm. "We're going for a run."

I glanced at the window, confused. "Now? A run? Enzo, it's-"

that kind of run," he interrupted, his eyes flickering with an

kind of

out of my dress

the mansion, dodging family members and avoiding the areas where I knew my parents and their guests would be congregating. Finally, we reached the back door, slipped outside, and it felt like we could finally breathe a

a word as we darted into the forest behind the mansion. Once we were far

full of concern and something else-anticipation,

forms melting away as our wolf forms took over. I felt an overwhelming surge of freedom, as though this

quick glance at one another we took off, running through the forest like we had been locked up for years. The wind howled in my ears as we darted between

of the visions, the dread, the confusion-it all seemed to evaporate, leaving

could carry us no further, and then we stopped. Shifting back to our human forms, I looked around and realized where we

It was Selena's grave.

grass had grown over her grave, the leaves on the trees had returned, and there was the scent of fresh flowers

simple stone marker stood in the middle,

need to be here," Enzo whispered, as if