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

head. "I didn't think it would be

stood now, my legs were shaky, but I let my mom support

"It's a long story, Nina," he said, his voice a touch

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

nodded and smoothed down his shirt. "I'm sorry for my outburst. It's

at my father squarely, and in that

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.

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

bath opposite Enzo. But within a few moments, the pain began to fade.

feels like a nightmare," I murmured as I moved my hand beneath the sparkling surface of the

out a low, rumbling chuckle and sank a little further down. "I wish it were just a dream. But

shape than I was, having had the silver ropes binding him for longer. His skin was blistered and bruised, and it made

of your blood," I whispered. "For trace amounts

softly. "She seems to

little bad for Mila. The last of her kind, desperately searching for a way to bring her people back to their former glory. But her path was sorely misguided. She had clearly

at Enzo's skin. "She worked with Tim and the others

scoffed. "It seems 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 laughing right now.

end, thanks to my father. Mila may 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

up and took both of my hands in his. There was