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."

astonishment, before he finally released

Sir," Luke said, bowing his head. "I didn't think it would be so dangerous. Mila has changed considerably in

but I let my mom support me

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

I could, Enzo stepped forward and took my arm. "Your dad is right, Nina. We're all safe, and that's what matters. You should

nodded and smoothed down

my father squarely, and in that moment, there was an unspoken

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

mother and Tyler wrap their arms around me, too,

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

like a nightmare," I murmured as I moved my hand beneath the sparkling surface of the water. "Like we've been

let 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 our minds that we dreamed all

soft sigh and picked up a nearby sponge, which I used to begin gently dabbing at Enzo's skin. He was in worse shape than I was, having had the silver ropes binding him for longer. His skin was blistered and bruised, and it made tears

drop of your blood," I whispered. "For

mad dream of Mila's," Enzo said softly. "She seems to be grasping

for Mila. The last of her kind, desperately searching for a way to bring her people back to their former glory. But

continued dabbing at Enzo's skin. "She worked with Tim and

team?" The thought of it made me laugh a bit, even though I didn't really feel

may have claimed that she would keep us alive, but

look up at Enzo. "We can't just let her-" "Hey." Enzo sat up and took both of my hands in his. There was an earnest look in his brown eyes. "Let's just