My Hockey Alpha by Eve Above Story PDF

Chapter 0542

Nina

It wasn't long before I realized where Enzo was taking us: into town, and to the diner, the location of many a late- night date.

"I should've known," I murmured with a half-hearted smile as we slid into our regular booth.

"It's been a little while, Enzo said, his eyes scanning the menu. "And I'm hungry."

I hadn't been working regularly at the diner since we got married. In fact, I hadn't been working much at all outside of being the team doctor for the hockey team during game season and volunteering occasionally around town. In a strange way, I missed it. Maybe, I thought to myself, I would come back to it at some point. But that felt like a silly thought; as if I would have the time, what with a baby on the way and medical school.

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

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

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

to quit my job, Nina. But one of us

surge of frustration. "But that's just it. Why does it

that luxury," he said, his voice tinged with weariness. "We have

us planned for," I shot

it does. But we can't undo it now. We

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

with resignation. "Sometimes

in my throat growing larger. "I never wanted to give up

says we are?" he said, his eyes meeting mine. "We're just adjusting them to fit a

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