My Hockey Alpha by Eve Above Story PDF

Chapter 0717 Nina

The morning sun came too soon.

None of us slept for more than a few minutes. Either we were too frightened and just didn't want to admit it, or our minds were whirling with too many possibilities. I spent the remaining hours of the nighttime laid out on the mattress, letting the shaman's medicine work its magic, while Daphne and Enzo paced nervously around the little hut.

"The veil here is thicker," Daphne explained, her nails practically bitten down to nubs from chewing on them all night. "The place where it's thinner is still days away if we move on foot. And who knows how much time we have left before they find our trail again? God, we never should have stopped."

Enzo scoffed and shook his head for the millionth time. "If you don't want to be here, Daphne, then leave," he scolded. "But I had to get my wife someplace where she could be helped. She's pregnant. I won't just wander through the woods with her for days when she's in so much pain she can barely speak."

"I'm sorry, guys." I propped myself up on my elbow and looked at them both with sincerity in my eyes. Sincerity and tears. "This is all my fault-"

"No, Nina." Enzo rushed over to me and crouched down beside me. He reached out to cup my cheek in his hand, and I leaned into his touch, soothed by his warmth. "It's not your fault. You have no control over what happens to your body."

"But I could have made it, if only I had been a little stronger."

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and pinched the bridge of her nose. "Enzo is right. It's no one's fault. I'm... I'm glad to see you're better now." As she spoke, her face reddened a bit. It wasn't easy for the nervous bird shifter to say such things-I could

then. I was feeling much better now that the shaman's medicine had run its course, and had virtually no

you can open portals?"

She nodded.

continued, standing. "Maybe if we try together, we

down to my pregnant belly, and she shot me

up in the air. "It's not like we have much of

out for the hundredth time. I cursed, clutching my spinning head as I wavered in my

movements. He guided me over to the mattress and sat me down. I had such little strength left that I couldn't resist in the

we can do," Daphne said. "No one here has the ability; the Dragon Queen has made certain of

far from the thin spot," I added. The morning sun was already beginning its

We had seen the extent of their help, and for good reason. The