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."

words were sweet, and a part of me 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

to you. We made a promise to each other that we wouldn't let the baby

never that simple, is it?" he asked, finally

frustration in his gaze that was almost palpable, and something told me that there was

are you saying?" I

said a little more gently now. "But

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

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 felt like, with each passing moment, my husband was putting

finally threw my hands up in the air and turned on my heel, heading over to the door leading to the bathroom. "Whatever," I said,

and I walked over to it, turning on the hot water. Soon, the bathroom

Enzo. The uncertainty about his job was one thing, but the flinching was

more than anything was the fact that he refused to just be

the water. My fingers curled around the talisman I wore around my neck,

lotus flower all around. In the center was a small stone-an

nothing. But even if it was, it gave me a sense of ease just from wearing it. Maybe that was what I

open. I looked up and through the

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

sighed. "Room for

but I knew that I couldn't stay mad at him like that. I nodded and readjusted my position to let him in, and

sat there for a while, our limbs tangled beneath the water. The steam floating in the air between us served as a bit