My Hockey Alpha by Eve Above Story PDF

Chapter 0538

Nina

The cool air and the quiet campus had always been a comfort to me. But even the cool evening breeze couldn't lift the heaviness weighing down on me as I fled the hockey arena.

I wasn't even entirely sure why I was running, but I knew I had to. My feet carried me across the empty athletic fields, and it wasn't until I broke through the line of trees that I finally slowed to a walking pace.

Eventually, I came to a small stream that was located along one of the many walking trails that the campus boasted. It was flowing in full force thanks to the summer rain, and it offered a bit of solace.

I plopped down on a fallen log, my eyes stinging as I fought to hold back a new wave of tears. This was too much. Even with my werewolf healing, the red mark Enzo left on my arm remained as a vivid reminder. It was a painful imprint not only on my skin but also on my heart.

my wolf to respond, to offer some kind of

hurt you, Nina. Sometimes

own voice. "That's not

was glad for it. I didn't need any justifications as to what had just happened.

my cheeks and wiped them away. I stared at the stream in front of me, its water cascading over rocks, a natural

to emotional pain was as simple as the physical: a little bit of accelerated healing, a dab of supernatural ointment, and I'd be good

deep down, I knew that the hurt I was feeling was a lot more complex than

wrapped up in my own fears, my own

person with his own fears, his own past, his own PTSD from our war with the Crescents. We had both seen things, done things that we couldn't take back, that lingered like dark clouds over our lives. Things that we couldn't tell the world, things

I was all along but he was just too afraid to show