My Hockey Alpha by Eve Above Story PDF

Chapter 0704

Nina

"To the death."

Enzo and I took a step back, eyeing Mila cautiously.

"To the death?" Enzo scoffed. "Mila, are you insane?"

"No." She shrugged, checking her crimson nails. "Not insane. It's tradition."

"Enlighten us, then," I hissed. I had absolutely no intention of battling my own husband to the death. There had to be a crack in Mila's facade, somehow, somewhere. I was determined to find it; I had done the same with evil people before. What made Mila so different?

"Let me make this perfectly clear," Mila purred, her voice dripping with a mixture of disdain and mockery." Tomorrow, at the crack of dawn, you two will battle fiercely to the death. No tricks, no mercy will be permitted- just a vicious brawl until one lone victor remains breathing. Do we have an understanding?"

She lifted one slender brow when she was finished, regarding us like insects she planned to squash beneath the heel of her boot. I hadn't felt this small since before we had ended the Lana's reign.

I swallowed hard past the knot in my throat, gripping Enzo's feverish hand tightly. The prolonged contact with Mila's sadistic silver cage had left his skin hot and inflamed. Soon, my skin would be the same; assuming I lived.

"You sadistic witch!" Enzo growled. He rushed forward and smashed a fist against the bars, causing both Luke and I to jump, but then he recoiled as the silver seared his flesh.

I rushed over to him. He sank to his knees with a guttural groan, cradling his burnt hand. "I'll never kill my wife, you bitch," he growled. "Never."

I expect she'll

with your tradition," Enzo growled, still clutching his

"What are the stipulations?" I asked. "You have to have a reason behind only

said, "then I'll allow her to live here for the duration of her pregnancy; the child will be born as the bastard heir to the Dragon throne. Once it is born, I

you will die choking on your own blood. And once you're gone, my sweet mate will breed me an army of noble dragon heirs, and your mongrel whelp perishes alongside

roiled with nausea and rage. Before I could spit out a response, Enzo snarled from his knees, "We

empty threats," she said. "Refuse my challenge tomorrow, and I'll simply execute both Nina and the child and take what I want

gown hissing over

she said, pausing at the door. "At dawn,

the guards with a shuddering slam, leaving me, Enzo, and Luke entirely

I rushed forward and broke

all of this silver. He clutched me fiercely to his chest as guttural sobs wracked through

promise of revenge, if only we could escape this

not necessarily to contain us. Even if we somehow managed to sneak out

three of us where we stood, and begin a search for a

shoulders, despair carved into his haggard features. "Nina, look at me," he said softly, forcing me to meet his eyes. "If we have to fight tomorrow, there's no way I can win. Not if it means killing you and our unborn child. You

free of his grip. "I'm not

cell on his own, drew his knees up to his chest. "It's useless," he muttered. "This entire place is crawling with armed guards, we're trapped in literal werewolf kryptonite, and we're up against a

army of shifters,"

something we can do," I said.