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

then, if I had only let him carve his own path and make his own choices instead

I finally said, chuckling wryly. "I guess you're

point, but he never did. Figuring that he was

the 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

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

that was when it

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

a familiar red bird pecking violently at the glass pane. Her usually melodic

was Daphne. Something was very

over and fumbled with the latch, finally

frenzy before shifting abruptly back into her petite human form, her ginger hair falling haphazardly into her

thank god!" She rushed over to me and grasped my shoulders in both

blood turned to ice. "W What?" I stammered. "You

grasped my wrist, yanking me out of sight

now," she

widened. "What? And you didn't

of the ordinary, so I just watched him. But then... he's not alone anymore, Nina..." Daphne's voice trailed off, a

willing her to

took a deep breath. 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

house? They must have known that Enzo was gone.