My Hockey Alpha by Eve Above Story PDF

Chapter 0683 Nina

"He'll be okay, Nina. I promise."

Jessica's voice came through the phone loud and clear, reassuring as ever. But despite her insistence, I just wasn't buying it.

"I just... I feel like something is going to go wrong," I found myself saying. "Is that crazy?"

"Yes, Yes, it is." That was Lori that time. She was sitting in the background of the FaceTime call, eating a peanut butter sandwich. Normally, her matter-of-fact attitude would have made me laugh, but not today.

"Lori," Jessica hissed, smacking her in the leg. "Rude."

I let out a soft sigh. "No, no, she's right," I said. "I'm just hormonal, I think. The doctor warned me of this. He'll be home first thing in the morning."

"And he's staying home this time?" Jessica asked. "He's not taking the job after all, is he?"

"I think he's staying." I paused, biting my lip. It broke my heart a bit that he wasn't taking his dream job, but it had ultimately been his decision to turn it down. Maybe it would be for the best. "Is it bad that I'm a little relieved?" I blurted out.

Jessica and Lori shrugged in unison. "It's not bad," Lori said. "You're pregnant. Oh, and your life is like one big movie. You never know when danger is on its way."

Now, I finally laughed. Lori was right; sometimes, it felt as if the moment one thing cleared up, more danger found its way to me. I felt like a magnet sometimes, always attracting some sort of drama. But I wouldn't have it any other way, really.

"Yeah," I finally said. "Maybe it's for the best if we're together during this pregnancy."

"Honestly," Jessica chimed in, "he should be with you throughout the pregnancy anyway. We know you love your independence, Nina, but he made a good decision in sticking with you instead of taking that job. You need each other right now."

wasn't so wrong for me to feel relieved that

only let him carve his own path and make his own choices instead

said, chuckling wryly. "I guess

kept checking my phone, hoping that maybe he would text or call at some point, but he never did. Figuring that

nightly descent behind the horizon, and I was curled up cozily beneath a blanket in bed,

PhD student. I was laughing along to a scene, tears in

that was when

tapping erupted

I spotted a familiar red bird pecking violently at the glass pane. Her usually melodic chirps came

was Daphne. Something was very

rushed over and fumbled with the latch, finally flinging the window open. Daphine immediately fluttered

back into her petite human form, her ginger hair falling haphazardly into

and grasped my shoulders in

to ice. "W What?" I stammered. "You mean the

nodded grimly. She grasped my wrist, yanking me out of sight

now," she said, her voice dropping to an

eyes widened. "What? And you didn't tell me?" I

said. "Nothing seemed out of the ordinary, so I just watched him. But then... he's not

the shoulders, willing her to gather her wits. "What do you

alone all this time, but then... All of a sudden, a bunch of other wolves emerged from the woods. A dozen of them, including the yellow-eyed wolf, just

They must