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."

desire, to want to stay with his pregnant

promise to each other that we wouldn't let the baby get in the way

simple, is it?" he asked, finally turning to

almost palpable, and something told me that there was more to

are you saying?"

you," he said a little more gently now. "But is it really an option

is," I said sternly. "And as far as I know, you were on board with the idea

seemed to flicker through Enzo's brown eyes, and each of them was even more unreadable than the last. I felt like, with each passing moment, my

sigh, I finally threw my hands up in the air and turned on my heel, heading over

opened the bathroom door and stepped inside. The large clawfoot tub beckoned to me, and I walked over to it, turning

hair out, however, my mind kept wandering back to Enzo. The uncertainty about his job was one thing, but the flinching was another. Something was going on with him, I was

hurt more than anything was the fact

and let out a small sigh as I sank into the water. My

of a lotus flower all around. In the center was a small stone-an opal, from the

some piece of jewelry that would do nothing. But even if it was, it gave

through the steam to see Enzo

my grip on the talisman and allowing it to float in the water, held fast

sighed. "Room for

almost considered telling him to leave, but I knew that I couldn't stay mad at him like that. I nodded

steam floating in the air between us served as a bit of a buffer, an excuse to not have to look into