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."

saying. It was a reasonable desire, to want to

my voice rising ever so slightly. "This is so important to you. We made a promise to each other that we

well, it's never that simple, is it?" he asked, finally

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

you saying?" I

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

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

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 up another

my heel, heading over to the door leading to the bathroom. "Whatever," I said, annoyance threading through

I walked over to it, turning

kept wandering back to Enzo. The uncertainty about his job was one thing, but the

more than anything was the fact that he

and let out a small sigh as I sank into the water. My fingers curled around the talisman I wore around my neck, and I took a few moments to admit it in

a lotus flower all

Hopefully this wasn't a gimmick, just some piece of jewelry that would do nothing. But even if it was, it gave me a sense of ease just from wearing it. Maybe that

up and through the steam to see Enzo standing in the

on the talisman and allowing it to float in

"Room for

I almost considered telling him to leave, but I knew that I couldn't stay mad at him like that. I nodded and readjusted my position to let him in, and watched as he took his clothes off and

limbs tangled beneath the water. The steam floating in the