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."

with astonishment, before he finally released his iron grip on

head. "I didn't think it would

now, my legs were shaky, but I let my mom support me on

father sighed and passed a hand over his weary face. "It's a long story, Nina," he said, his voice

to respond, but before I could, Enzo stepped forward and took my arm. "Your dad is

should you." My father nodded and smoothed down his shirt. "I'm sorry for my outburst.

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

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 barely more than a whisper. "I

arms. I felt my mother and Tyler wrap their arms around me, too,

opposite Enzo. But within a few moments, the

my hand beneath the sparkling surface of the water.

But even if it were, I'd have to wonder what's so wrong with our minds that we dreamed

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 come to my

of this for a drop of your blood," I whispered. "For trace

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

felt a little bad for Mila. The last of her kind, desperately searching for a

I said as I continued dabbing at Enzo's skin. "She worked with Tim

like it. Why else would a fearsome dragon cult leader work as a doctor for a hockey team?" The thought of it made me laugh a bit, even though I didn't really feel like

have claimed that she would keep us alive, but she seemed so disconnected from her own mind that there was no telling exactly what she

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