My Hockey Alpha by Eve Above Story PDF

Chapter 0688

Nina

I leaned back against the airport terminal wall, scrolling anxiously through my recent texts to Enzo. There was nothing new, aside from my frantic messages asking where he was. My calls had been going straight to voicemail all morning, just like they had been the night before.

Even though dread was threatening to take over me, I tried to hold onto some hope. Maybe he had forgotten to charge his phone again. Yes, that had to be it.

"He'll probably be here any minute," Jessica said, her blue eyes following my concerned gaze down the empty airport terminal. "Give it another few minutes."

I mustered a strained smile. She had been saying that for the past twenty minutes, and yet he still hadn't shown up.

Still, seeing no signs of him emerging as the plane emptied, my palms grew clammy, my pulse quickening. Finally, the last tired stragglers passed through the gate.

No Enzo.

My throat tightened. Please, no. Had something happened?

"I'm going to talk to an employee," I said. Jessica met my gaze and nodded, unease darting through her own eyes. Offering Jessica a stiff smile, I slipped over to the counter. "Hello," I said, trying my best to keep my voice steady. “My husband was supposed to be on that plane, but he's not here. Can you check for me?"

The agent looked up at me over her wire-rimmed glasses and shot me a curious look. "I suppose," she said, sounding a little annoyed. I watched as she tapped away on her keyboard, my fingers worrying the hem of my shirt beneath the counter.

"Name?" she asked.

"Enzo Rivers."

then nodded to herself. "Looks like a passenger by the name of Enzo Rivers never boarded when the plane departed three hours ago.

"You're

make an announcement just in

tumbly. "Thanks." With that, I returned to where Jessica was waiting for

"Enzo isn't here. Something's wrong, I know it." Tears burned in my eyes but I choked them back

so he stayed

there was nothing new. Nothing since thirty minutes

the middle of our little main office back at HQ, where everyone was gathered: me, Luke, Lori and Jessica, Matt, and

me back, either," Mart said, slipping his

What was even more worrying was that his phone had been ringing last night, but now it went to voicemail each time we called, meaning that it was likely

back to the supernatural realm, tell your father-" Daphne began, but I cut her off with a

I need to be

in my

I thought to myself, not when Enzo had gone missing the same day. But I had to cling to hope that he was unharmed, that

I fought to hold my

his fingers already tapping on the computer keyboard. "We'll find him, Nina. Maybe he just overslept and

"Yeah. Maybe."

Luke and I were hurdling thousands of feet above the earth. The sun was making its climb into the sky, but from up here it almost looked like sunset already. Normally, I would have been busy marveling

home this morning. He should be in my arms now, but

hell was

to meet his steady eyes, which grounded me even though we were thousands of feet in the sky. He had always had this uncanny ability to pull me back down to earth when I needed it

leg for the

my leg nonstop, bouncing it on the ball of my foot. I quickly stopped, stretching my leg out beneath the seat in front