My Hockey Alpha by Eve Above Story PDF

Chapter 0714

Nina

Thorns whipped my face as I ran through the cool night air.

All I could hear was my own racing heart and my paws pounding against the forest floor. Well, that and the hyenas in hot pursuit of us. Their yips and howls almost sounded as if they were laughing at us, mocking us for even trying to escape.

More than once, I swore I felt one of them nip at my tail. And maybe they did; but I couldn't stop. None of us could. We had to keep moving, even if our legs ached and our lungs burned.

After all, if we were going to leave our dear friend behind in that hellhole, then we might as well succeed in escaping

Up ahead of me, Daphne's red wings fluttered through the tree branches, always sticking close but hidden from view of the hyenas. It was for the best if she stayed hidden. That was how she had found us, anyway; by keeping herself unknown, disconnected.

Beside me, though, Enzo never once left my side-not even for an instant. I felt his dark fur brush up against mine. At least I had one comfort in all of this.

I leaped over a fallen tree with ease. Up ahead, Daphne took a sudden turn, and I followed. More branches whipped at my face, but I didn't stop, even when I felt a searing pain around my eye.

Just keep moving.

The hyenas, however, had flanked us. I saw a flash of mottled brown and black fur circle around, and I cursed in my head as I veered to the left. I just narrowly missed a set of gnashing teeth. If I had hesitated for only a split second longer, maybe I would have been caught.

I pushed my legs to carry me faster. Enzo stuck close to my side, keeping himself between me and the hyenas. Their yipping grew deafening. What happened next was a blur.

Two hyenas cut us off from ahead, hackles raised and teeth dangerously bared. But overhead, in the tree branches, Daphne fluttered her red wings in a frenzy. Big, black walnuts rained down from the fronds, showering the hyenas in a rain of yelps and bruises.

While the dragon queen's guards were somewhat distracted, Enzo and I circled around the cacophony, bursting through the thick underbrush.

up ahead, a glistening

became muffled and icy for an eternal moment.

burst out on the other side, we kept running. Even with

long we ran for, how far, or how fast. But

We had lost them.

to a walk. Daphne fluttered down from the tree branches and shifted back

before Daphne nodded her head

rest," she said.

slope, still too breathless to speak. When we got to the bottom, we fell down to the leaf-covered

rather, perched-on top of a nearby boulder. Her red hair billowed in the breeze as she

"Nina, you're hurt."

see him leaning over me with concern written across his face. He reached up, and I winced when his fingers

his lip. "Looks like you got all torn up. Here." He quickly tore a piece of

and pulled

at me for a long time before he let out a deep, low sigh. "You're mad at me. For

of me, and that Enzo had only done what he thought was right,

blame you." Enzo sat back and passed a hand over his weary face. "For all I knew, Mila might have tried

said nothing, not because I disagreed with Enzo's logic, but because it still pained me. Finally, when I spoke, my

of leaving him there. When can

worry. We'll be returning with your father's army." Daphne glanced over her shoulder, still perched on top of the rock. "I sent word to him as soon as I knew what

more so with relief and shock than anything else. "How long?" I muttered. "How long until backup

shook her head. "You do realize where we are,

"No. Not really."

As she spoke, she tilted her head back to look up at the sky. Her red hair fell over