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."

what he was saying. It was a reasonable desire, to

insisted, my voice rising ever so slightly. "This is so important to you. We made a promise to each other that we wouldn't let the

that simple, is it?" he asked, finally

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

you

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

frowned. "Yes, it is," I said sternly. "And as far as I know, you

eyes, and each of them was even more unreadable than the last. I felt like, with

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

tub beckoned to me, and I walked over to it, turning on the hot water. Soon, the bathroom began to fill with steam, and the

his job was one thing, but the flinching was another. Something

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

sank into the water. My fingers curled around the talisman I wore around my neck, and I took a few moments to admit

small and circular, with indents in the shape of a lotus flower all around. In the center was a small stone-an opal, from the looks

of jewelry that would do nothing. But even if it was, it gave me a sense of ease just from wearing it. Maybe that was what I needed more than

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

releasing my grip on the talisman and

"Room

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

beneath the water. The steam floating in the air between us served as a bit of a buffer, an