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.

a glistening stream

world became muffled and

kept running. Even with our fur weighed down by

far, or how fast. But

We had lost them.

we slowed to a trot, then to a walk. Daphne fluttered down from the tree branches and shifted back into her human

panting with exhaustion and unable to speak, before Daphne nodded her head toward a nearby slope surrounded by a

rest," she said. "And

still too breathless to speak. When we got to the bottom, we fell down to the leaf-covered forest floor in between two large

of a nearby boulder. Her red hair billowed

"Nina, you're hurt."

me out of a state of near disassociation. I turned my aching neck to see him leaning over me with concern written across his face. He reached

you got all torn up. Here." He quickly tore a piece of his shirt sleeve off and began dabbing at my

and pulled away. "I'm

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

I admitted. I knew it was silly of me, and that

weary face. "For all I knew, Mila might have tried to torture you for information. I'd rather keep you in the dark, genuinely innocent, and

but because it still pained me. Finally, when I spoke,

thought of leaving him there.

on top

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

do realize

"No. Not really."

side of the supernatural realm," Daphne explained. As she spoke, she tilted her head back to look up at the sky. Her red hair fell over her shoulders, illuminated by the moonlight. "It's going