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."

maybe it wasn't so wrong for me to feel relieved that he was staying. I just felt like a bit of a fool for pleading with him to take the job when he had expressed

his own choices instead of strong-arming him

said, chuckling wryly. "I guess

at some point, but he never did. Figuring that he was busy,

horizon, and I was curled up cozily beneath a blanket in bed, watching an old movie on my laptop that I had seen a hundred

romance about a professor and her PhD student. I was laughing along to a scene, tears in my eyes and a

that was

when a sudden, frantic tweeting followed by sharp tapping erupted just outside the window. Popcorn went flying, and I felt my heart pound

a familiar red bird pecking violently at the

was Daphne. Something was very

the latch, finally flinging the window open. Daphine immediately

the room in a red feathered frenzy before shifting abruptly back into her petite human form, her ginger hair falling haphazardly

thank god!" She rushed over to me and grasped my shoulders in both hands, her eyes

blood turned to ice. "W What?" I stammered. "You mean the yellow-eyed

my wrist, yanking me

been lurking for a few hours now," she said,

And you didn't tell me?" I

said. "Nothing seemed out of the ordinary, so I just watched him. But then... he's not alone anymore, Nina..." Daphne's voice trailed off, a shudder quaking her

her by the shoulders, willing her to gather her

When she spoke, her words tumbled out like an avalanche. "He was alone all this time, but then... All of a sudden, a bunch of other wolves emerged from

information. A dozen wolves, surrounding the house? They must have known that Enzo was gone. But why were they coming for