My Hockey Alpha by Eve Above Story PDF

Chapter 0540

The server came over, a familiar face who greeted us with a forced smile. "The usual?"

"Yeah," Enzo responded, handing back the menus. She nodded and left us alone, with nothing but the tension that we had brought in with us.

"I've been thinking," I began, twirling a napkin in my hands. "About what you said-the ultimatum. It's a lot to process in 48 hours, Enzo. I don't know if I want to move back in with my parents, and I'm not sure if I can make a decision like that so quickly."

He sighed, leaning back in the booth. "And I don't know if I want to quit my job, Nina. But one of us needs to make a decision. For the baby's sake/"

I shook my head, feeling a surge of frustration. "But that's just it. Why does it have to be so black and white? Why can't we find a middle ground?"

"Because sometimes life doesn't give you that luxury," he said, his voice tinged with weariness. "We have to be practical. We have a baby on the way."

for," I shot back. "Do you

at me, his eyes searching mine. "Of course it does. But we can't

at the worn tabletop. "And where do our dreams fall into that? Do they

a sound heavy with resignation. "Sometimes dreams change. Or they

shook my head, the lump in my throat growing larger. "I never wanted to give up

just adjusting them to

a part of myself, and I don't know how to deal with that." "I'm scared, too," he countered, his voice tinged with desperation. "You think I don't worry about losing myself too? And yet, I'm willing to give it

returned, setting our food in front of us, a plate of fries and two milkshakes-just like old times.

I didn't want this, Enzo. This whole situation.

you want to keep the baby, we have to accept

that I refused to let fall. "But it's hard, Enzo. We're being asked to compromise so much, and I don't know if I'm ready for that

his hand reaching across the table to cover mine. "But maybe that's what