My Hockey Alpha by Eve Above Story PDF

Chapter 0724

My father's voice trailed off at that point. He dropped his head a bit, as though the memories pained him to recount.

"We shared secrets with one another," he said. "Secrets that no one else—not even your mother, Nina-ever discovered."

"But it all went south, didn't it?" Enzo whispered.

Aldric nodded slowly. "Mila had a small tribe of her kin; the last of her kind. It was my job to protect them in exchange for Mila's expertise. And I failed."

Mila burst into Aldric's chambers, the doors swinging outwards in front of her. Her hair was wild, and her eyes glowed like two emeralds. Aldric had gotten used to the dragon's frazzled appearance, and he went to wave her away.

"I'll speak with you in a moment"

"No." She stormed forward and slammed her fists on the table, causing Aldric's werewolf council to jump in unison. Fire flickered on her fingertips; without a word, the others got up and scurried out of the room in fear of the dragon's strength.

were alone. Another one of Mila's episodes, perhaps, he thought. But no-when he saw the

time since Aldric had known Mila,

all," she said through her choked screams. "I went back

reached for her shoulders, but she pulled away with

poachers. And I'll fucking kill

high in the sky by now, but Enzo and I hardly felt the passage of time. My father traced his finger around the rim of his whiskey

he explained. "Seeing as there were so few dragons left, their scales and especially their eggs-caught quite the price on the market. We staved them off as much as we could, but their underground networks ran deep.

you failed in your end of the deal," I

pride. I thought that with the threat of my

to her word," he whispered. "She killed every last one of those poachers.

palace," I whispered. "She created it when she burned

exactly what she said that day,