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."

baby that neither of us planned for," I shot back. "Do you

But we can't undo it now. We have to think

at the worn tabletop. "And where do our dreams fall

sighed, a sound heavy with resignation. "Sometimes

head, the lump in my throat growing larger. "I

just adjusting them to fit a new reality.

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

server returned, setting our food in front of us, a plate of fries and two milkshakes-just

didn't want this, Enzo. This whole situation. It's not

If you want to keep the baby, we have to accept that not all dreams may come true, not

Enzo. We're being asked to compromise so much, and I don't

think I am?" he asked softly, his hand reaching across the table to cover mine. "But maybe that's what love is, Nina. Maybe it's about making sacrifices for someone else's happiness, even if it means putting your