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."

father froze for a moment, blinking with astonishment, before he finally released his iron grip on Enzo's

head. "I didn't think it would be so dangerous. Mila has changed considerably in the

shaky, but I let my mom support me

father sighed and passed a hand over his weary face. "It's a long story, Nina," he said, his voice a touch gentler now. "One that we cannot discuss right this

I could, Enzo stepped forward and took my arm. "Your

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

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

that happened, but 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.

my mother and Tyler wrap their arms around me, too, and in that moment I felt as if nothing

a few moments, the pain

beneath the sparkling surface of the water.

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

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

blood," I

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

lip. In a strange sort of way, I almost felt a 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

knew about you all this time," I said as I continued dabbing at Enzo's skin. "She worked with Tim and the others for five years, after all. It seems like

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

it wasn't silly. We just barely got out alive in the 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

Enzo. "We can't just let her-" "Hey." Enzo sat up and took both of my hands in