My Hockey Alpha by Eve Above Story PDF

Chapter 0764

I sighed and ran a hand through my hair. Tyler was right; the book was quiet now, but I could still feel its energy thrumming without even touching it. Whatever magic had been soothed because of the moonstone would likely not react well to being burned.

Which was likely why it had been shoved into the back of a high shelf in the library.

"Well... It was fun while it lasted," Tyler said, standing. "But it seems like the sort of ritual that wasn't meant for us.

I swallowed, nodding, and instinctively went to cover my belly with my hand-as though that could somehow protect the little life inside of me.

"Yeah," I managed around the knot that had formed in my throat. "I guess it wasn't."

That night, I laid in my bed, staring up at the ceiling. My mind whirled with a thousand different thoughts, the strange book and its contents the least of them. No, my thoughts were focused on Enzo.

hoped he was safe. I hoped that whatever Mila had planned for him was reversible, and certainly not

I hoped that he would come home safely to

to slip off into sleep. But as I found myself in the world of dreams once again, I almost wished

played out in flashes of disjointed images and sensations the cloying scent of rot and decay, the phantom sensation of icy fingers trailing

to reveal the entity itself looming over me—those hollow, malevolent eyes boring into me as it

stared wide-eyed at the entity, but I couldn't move. The entity moved closer, reaching for me, grinning wider and wider. I felt my dream split and

the entity was escaping my

"Nina."

through the thick layer of fear, and instantly, familiarity washed over me. I knew that voice; I had heard it a hundred times before, thousands, millions, before I was born,

isn't

my throat, choked off by the shadow entity's presence. But as it turned out, maybe I didn't need to speak

just needed to