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."

a baby that neither of us planned for," I shot

"Of course it does. But we can't undo it now. We have to

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

a sound heavy with resignation. "Sometimes dreams change.

my throat growing larger. "I never wanted

eyes meeting mine. "We're just adjusting them to fit

like it," I whispered. "It feels like I'm losing 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 up

plate of fries and two milkshakes-just like old times.

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

to keep the baby, we have to accept

"But it's hard, Enzo. We're

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