My Hockey Alpha by Eve Above Story PDF

Chapter 722

Chapter 0722

Nina

The first thing I felt was the sensation of soft carpet on my cheek. Then, I felt hands on me, lifting me up to a sitting position. The third thing I noticed were faces: Enzo, Luke, my mother and my brother.

"Nina?" Enzo murmured. "Nina, are you okay?"

I nodded stiffly, although my throat was still too choked up to speak. We were back in my father's mansion-in his study, to be exact.

My mother stooped down beside me and cupped my face in her hands. "She looks pale. I'll call the doctor."

"No." I finally found the strength to speak and rubbed my sore wrists. "I'm fine. Really, I'm fine. Where's Dad?"

Enzo and my mother looked back and forth between each other. I began to fear the worst, considering what I had seen just before the portal closed; but then, as if on cue, the sound of more fizzling filled the air. A moment later, my father stepped into the room.

And he was furious.

"You fool!" he boomed. He strode across the room without hesitation and picked Enzo up by the shirt collar, practically lifting him right off of his feet. "Your one job in life is to protect my daughter, and you—"

"No." Before my father could finish, Luke climbed to his feet. A servant was working at the lock on his collar, trying to pick it open, but he waved her away. "I was the one who led Nina there. I knew where we were potentially headed, and still I let it happen."

a moment, blinking with astonishment, before

bowing his head. "I didn't think it would be so

legs were shaky, but I let my mom support

a hand over his weary face. "It's a long story, Nina," he said, his voice a touch gentler now. "One that we

forward and took my arm. "Your dad is right, Nina. We're all safe, and that's

nodded and smoothed down his shirt.

squarely, and in that moment, there was

I knew that they were right; I felt weak. Very weak. And both Enzo and I looked like shit, not to mention Luke, who was still having the collar around his neck picked at. "We will talk in the morning," my father said. He crossed the room to meet me, and took both of my shoulders in his hands. When he spoke again, his voice was

nodded stiffly. Without another word, my father pulled me into his strong, warm arms. I felt my mother and Tyler

few moments, the pain began to fade. Whatever special oils my father's servants had put in the

I murmured as I moved my hand beneath the sparkling surface of the water. "Like we've

out a low, rumbling chuckle and sank a little further down. "I wish it were just a dream. But even if it were, I'd have to wonder what's so wrong with

skin. He was in worse shape

of your blood," I

Enzo said softly. "She seems to be

a way to bring her people back to their former glory. But her path was sorely misguided. She had clearly

I continued dabbing at Enzo's skin. "She worked with Tim and the others for five years, after all. It seems like she must have been working at this

made me laugh a bit, even though I didn't really feel like laughing right now. To think that Mila

my father. Mila may have claimed that she would keep us alive, but she seemed so

pulled back a bit to look up at Enzo. "We can't just let her-" "Hey." Enzo sat up and took both of my