My Hockey Alpha by Eve Above Story PDF

Chapter 0609

Nina

My eyes went wide as Enzo uttered those words.

*I'm not entirely sure if I'm going to take this job after all."

It didn't make any sense. Enzo had been so excited about this job all along, and yet he was changing his mind suddenly out of the blue. Something had happened while he was gone, I was sure of it.

My mind raced to put the pieces together. The hurt wrist, the flinching, the distance in his eyes... Did someone attack him? One of the hockey players, maybe? But why? Everyone seemed to love him.

"But I just don't get it," I found myself saying, throwing my hands up in exasperation. "You were so excited about this job, Enzo. What changed?"

Enzo simply shrugged. "Look," he said, "I just don't know if it's a good idea, that's all."

"Why, though?" I asked. "Can you at least explain this one thing?"

He took a moment to collect his thoughts, his brow furrowing as he contemplated his response. I watched as he crossed over to the other side of the room and leaned on the desk that sat under the window. Everything in his movements told me everything that I needed to know; that he wasn't telling the truth.

Again.

"I just... I want to be by your side, you know?" he began, his voice barely more than a whisper. "I don't feel right leaving you with the pregnancy, especially with everything else going on. I've been thinking about it, and I know I would feel better if I was with you throughout all of this."

was touched by what he was saying. It was a reasonable desire, to want to stay with his pregnant wife; but it went against everything that

a promise to each other that we wouldn't

scoffed. "Yeah, well, it's never that simple, is it?" he asked, finally turning to

gaze that was almost palpable,

you

folding his arms over his chest. "Look, Nina, I love you," he said a little more gently now. "But is it really an

far as I know, you were on

heavy silence between us. During that time, a whole host of emotions seemed to flicker through Enzo's brown eyes, and each of them was even more unreadable than the last. I

my hands up in the air and turned on my heel, heading over

beckoned to me, and I walked over to it, turning on the

The uncertainty about his job was one thing, but the

anything was the fact that he refused to just be

out a small sigh as I sank into the water.

flower

as I looked at it. Hopefully this wasn't a gimmick, just some piece of jewelry that would do nothing. But even

door creaked open. I looked up and through the steam to see

and allowing it to float in

"Room for

at him like that. I nodded and

floating in the air between us