My Hockey Alpha by Eve Above Story PDF

Chapter 0680

Broad shoulders, jet black hair streaked with silver-

"Dad?" I exclaimed.

He looked much more tired than when I had seen him last, with more pronounced wrinkles across his forehead and around his striking eyes. He looked as if he hadn't slept in days. Those same eyes looked at me now with profound warmth and... was that regret?

"Hello, Nina. Tyler. Angelica." My dad's voice still resonated through the room with alpha authority, although today, it carried a softer tone than I had heard in a while.

"Aldric," my mother breathed, slowly rising from her chair with narrowed eyes. "What are you doing here?"

My father sighed. He glanced back and forth between all of us, and then his shoulders slumped a bit.

approached slowly. My dad watched me, uncertainty clouding those familiar, steely

began formally, then paused. When he continued, his voice was gentle, even vulnerable. "I'm so sorry about what happened. I've been thinking a

around my heart. I collapsed into his strong

forgive you," I

a newfound light in his eyes. "I really am sorry," he said softly, then turned to address all of us. "I'm sorry to all

across her chest. Her jaw was set hard.

to do that," she hissed, her eyes narrowed. "You don't get to berate my daughter and then give

"Angelica-"

to me, Aldric," my mother interrupted. "Pull a stunt like that again, speak to my daughter like that again, speak to me like that again... And you can go ahead and live your sad, lonely life in that mansion all by yourself." The room was silent, the only sound that of the birds chirping outside

broke across my father's face. "You're a firecracker, Angelica," he murmured. "A real firecracker." My mother scoffed, but I could see

and pulled my mom into his broad arms. Tyler and I watched from the sidelines, smirking at each other. It was so unlike our mother to be this openly affectionate, at least in