My Hockey Alpha by Eve Above Story PDF

Chapter 0780

Nina

As soon as Enzo was led away by the guard, I felt a surge of urgency ripple through me. Quickly, I motioned for Luke and Tyler to follow me around a corner and out of sight.

"That was too close," I muttered, ripping off the stifling guard helmet with shaking hands. "We need to regroup and figure out our next move."

Luke nodded grimly. "Did you two hash out a plan in there?" he whispered.

Stealing a glance at Tyler to ensure he was listening, I quickly relayed the key details of Enzo's scheme starting an uprising in the arena itself, turning the crowd against the guards while he and the panther shifter sowed chaos from within.

"That's one a hell of a gamble, Nina," Luke said when I was finished, his mouth set in a hard line. "But I suppose that was always going to be the case, taking the fight directly to Mila's doorstep like this."

"Do you think it can work?" Tyler's quiet voice cut through the weighted silence, his brow furrowed in concentration. "Getting people riled up enough to flat-out rebel, I mean? And how do we avoid casualties if things really hit the fan?"

I hesitated, chewing my lip as I considered his points. Rabble-rousing was a delicate art at the best of times- sowing the seeds of insurrection against a tyrant like Mila felt almost impossible.

Not to mention the moral implications of knowingly putting innocents in harm's way, assuming everything didn't go perfectly-which it certainly wouldn't.

"you make a fair point," I said at last with a weary sigh. "Which is why our first priority has to be identifying Mila's more unsavory thralls from those simply trapped under her sway through fear or coercion. The latter need to be our targets for rabble-rousing, while the former should be neutralized quickly before they can cause too much mayhem."

first faint glimmer of a smile playing at the corners of his mouth. "You

a lock of hair between my fingers. "Maybe the beginnings of

my hips, I exhaled slowly as I mapped out

and start planting seeds of unrest, sowing doubt about Mila's intentions. But you'll need to

snorted wryly. "Anyone who doesn't look 100% on board with the 'let's

the faintest of smiles. Trust Luke to find levity, even in the

into following Mila's rule through fear or intimidation. They just need

gaze fell on Tyler then. "Which is where your gift for reading social cues and body language is going to come in handy. I need you to be my eyes and ears out there-identifying who seems the most receptive

gambling a lot on my brother's abilities here, I knew. But if there was one thing the years of illness and isolation had given Tyler, it was an improved sense of how

the subtle steel

occasion. He gave a firm nod of

and the quiet conviction in his tone made my chest swell with a sense of pride. My little brother was all grown up; he may have been scarred and hardened by a childhood of struggle, but he had emerged all the

shaky plan would prove to be either steadier than we had anticipated or even worse than we

the gravity of the moment, his

shoulders as I slipped off the bulky guard armor and dropped it in a nearby alcove, hidden in the shadows. Luke and Tyler followed suit. "Let's get this

oppressive heat and flickering torches of the corridors until we found the arena.

our plain clothes, we fell into step beside a steady stream of people all funneling

as I recognized the telltale signs of mind control in many of them, their glazed eyes and jerky, marionette-like movements. Those were the thralls, the ones whose fate relied on their more 'aware' cousins and