My Hockey Alpha by Eve Above Story PDF

Chapter 0608

Nina

My hand trembled as I pulled away from Enzo, watching as a whole host of emotions played across his face. I was still in shock; he had flinched from my touch.

But why? I had never-I would never have laid a finger on him. And yet here he was, the man who was strong enough to fight battles against rogues, flinching away from his wife's touch.

*Enzo," I murmured, "what really happened with your wrist?"

Enzo let out a long sigh, but said nothing for a while. I kept waiting, thinking to myself that he would tell me the truth any moment, but he never did. It was as if he was battling with himself, trying to decide if he wanted to tell me the truth or not.

And then, finally, he said it.

"Nothing."

The word came out too quickly, and his voice was just a little too harsh. He kept untying his shoes, but I took a staggering step backwards, knowing that he was just blatantly lying at this point.

"Enzo," I said firmly, my voice hoarse with exasperation, "you can't keep brushing this off. Your wrist was injured, you're acting weird about it, and I'm your wife. Don't I deserve to know what really happened?"

He turned to face me, his expression guarded. "Nina, I've already told you-it was just a hockey accident. Look, already healed, see?" As he spoke, he tugged his sleeve up to reveal his wrist. The bruise was completely gone by now with not so much as a faint line to indicate where it had been before.

jaw, resisting the urge to roll my eyes. The

to believe that you hurt your wrist in some random accident, but you won't even tell me the details?" I retorted, my frustration evident in my

wrist, and you're acting like I've had my head chopped off. And besides, I've told you a million times that it's fine now.

right to be concerned when someone I love gets hurt and won't tell me the truth about it. You just flinched when I tried to touch

Then he stood and crossed over to me, and reached out to gently cup my face in his hands. "Nina, it's sweet that you care

feeling that he was still hiding something from me. Even my wolf bristled with annoyance inside of me, warning

"But trust goes both ways, Enzo. You can't expect me to trust you fully

let's not argue about this now. It's in the past, and

to believe him, to let go of my

hiding something," she said, her tone laced with annoyance. "I'm sure of

away to finish getting undressed. "But why?" I asked my wolf. "Why

the need to

wolf said. "Maybe it's something

I highly doubted that was what had happened. But either way, my wolf

keeping something from me?"

second before he

he said. "I'm sure. Can we please

back, feeling a new wave of hurt wash over me. Whatever he was refusing to tell me had

was silly and illogical, but I couldn't deny the fact that I was just worried for him more than anything else. I kept seeing the way he had flinched replay