My Hockey Alpha by Eve Above Story PDF

Chapter 0631

"Alright," I found myself saying with a stiff nod. "You can stay, if you'd like. No one's forcing you to go."

"Thanks, Enzo." Luke stood, his eyes landing on me one last time. "We're good?"

"We're good."

I watched Luke leave, his words swirling around in my mind. It felt strange, learning things about the realm where I grew up that had never even occurred to me as long as I had lived there.

I felt as though my views on the two worlds were shifting and changing, and for the first time in a long time, I wasn't sure how to feel about it.

I approached Lori with the small bottle of perfume in my hand, trying to hide the reluctance in my eyes. She glanced up at me, scrunching up her nose in a way that made it clear she was not thrilled about this.

"You're not really making me wear that stuff, are you?" she asked, eyeing the bottle suspiciously.

for her. "I'm not making you do anything," I said. "But if you want to come to the werewolf realm, unfortunately it needs to be

hate that I have

could empathize with her feelings, but there was little choice in the matter. "I know,"I replied softly, "and like I said, you don't have to

I'm sure Nina is really looking forward to seeing both of us there," she said with a gentle smile. "She'd be so disappointed if you

nodded. "Fine," she said with a reluctant sigh.

mix of relief and guilt as I uncapped the perfume bottle. I sprayed a fine mist over Lori, watching as it settled on her skin. We waited in tense silence, hoping for the best, but fearing

passed, and I couldn't help but feel that the perfume might not work on Lori. The scent of her humanity still lingered in my nostrils, and I worried that we would have to come up with another plan-or that she wouldn't be able to

moments later when she still smelled distinctly human. "I don't think

jerks," she muttered. "I shouldn't have to

began to settle in, I noticed something. Lori's human scent was fading, slowly but surely, I had to really concentrate to pick it up, and even

mixture of surprise and relief. "The perfume did work,

and Jessica, her expression a mixture of surprise and relief." Really?" she asked, as if not

tugging at the corners of my lips. "You don't appear entirely human, but you don't appear like a werewolf

she had apparently been holding. "Cool," she said, taking the vial of perfume from my hands and slipping