My Hockey Alpha by Eve Above Story PDF

Chapter 0606

Nina

By the time Enzo and I pulled ourselves away from our embrace, the clock read past four o'clock. I was beginning to feel restless, but Enzo was fast asleep. We had both dozed off yet again, although Enzo was more deep in sleep than I was.

With a gentle sigh, I carefully extricated myself from Enzo, my fingers trailing lightly over his arm as I did so. He stirred, his eyelids fluttering before he let out a contented sigh and settled back into sleep.

I couldn't help but smirk as I watched him sleep. He clearly needed it, and I wasn't going to wake him up.

But then my eyes caught it; the mark on his wrist. It was almost fully healed by now, but I could just barely make out the faint line where the bruise had been before. It wasn't so much the fact that he had the mark, it was the way he reacted when I pointed it out.

Enzo to flinch away when it came to injuries. Under normal circumstances, he likely could have pulled up his sleeve to have me look at it. He often liked to do things like that, joking that it was my

the bruise out made me wonder if there

A moment of clumsiness?

dress out of my closet and slipped it on, followed by a pair of slip-ons. It was

though, I slipped one of the talismans Elara had given me around my neck, concealing it underneath my dress.

through the house, pulling me closer to the kitchen. My parents' voices carried through

kitchen, I couldn't help but chuckle at the sight that greeted

his nose, and there was a hint of sauce smeared on his cheek. He

mother, equally amused, was perched on a stool by the kitchen island, a

over the kitchen," I

mock seriousness on his face. "Ah, Nina, you've arrived just in time to witness my culinary masterpiece. Tonight, I