My Hockey Alpha by Eve Above Story PDF

Chapter 0529

Nina

An ultimatum. The word hung heavy in the air between us, like a storm cloud threatening to burst. I felt my eyes widen, my pulse racing. An ultimatum? From Enzo, of all people?

"W-Why?" The word slipped out of my mouth before I could even formulate my own thoughts.

"Because I need to know you're safe, Nina. When I'm not here, I can't protect you," Enzo replied, his eyes still locked onto mine, intense and scrutinizing.

"But I can't just choose, Enzo. This is my home. And it's not fair for you to ask me to leave it like this," I argued, feeling the weight of his words sink in.

"Look, I know it's not fair. Life isn't fair," he retorted, the rigid line of his jaw and the stem set of his mouth the only hints of the emotional storm roiling inside of him. "But if something happens to you while I'm away because we didn't take every precaution, I'd never forgive myself."

dangerous for me to live my life," I shot back, my voice tinged with bitterness. "And don't say I can just open portals, because it's already

pregnancy. You're already on thin

take care of myself. I've been doing it for years before you came into my life," I countered, the simmering frustration

there are situations beyond our control," he

always be some kind of danger, some kind of risk. We can't live our lives in perpetual

Nina.

control?" I shot back, the words slipping from my mouth

restraining himself from saying something he would likely regret later. "You know

I? Because it feels a lot like you're trying to control my life,"

passing his hand over his weary face. "I'm not trying to control you. I'm trying to protect you. And

hated myself for it. Hated that I was showing this sort of emotion, hated that my own pregnancy hormones were getting the

firmly. "You have 48 hours to decide, Nina. Either you go to the werewolf realm and