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."

not your fault," he

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

that the shaman's medicine had run its course, and had virtually no pain

can open

She nodded.

standing. "Maybe if we try together, we

shot me a look of concern. "You're

shrugged and threw my hands up in the air. "It's not like we have much of a choice, is

for the hundredth time. I cursed, clutching my spinning head as I wavered in my spot. "Fuck!

been quiet all this time, suddenly stepped forward and grabbed my hands before I could make the movements. He guided me over to the mattress and sat me

one

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

had seen the extent of their help, and for good reason. The people here didn't deserve to get wrapped up