My Hockey Alpha by Eve Above Story PDF

Chapter 0789

Nina

Waiting by Enzo's bedside seemed to feel like an eternity, with each minute ticking past seeming to drag on forever. But, with mine and Jessica's help, along with his own healing, he was soon starting to show signs of waking up by the time the sun rose.

It wasn't until well after the sun made its ascent into the sky, however, that his eyes finally flickered open. For a long moment, we just looked at each other, taking each other in. I wondered during those moments if he was truly free from Mila's thrall now; but when I looked into his soft brown eyes and felt the gentle caress of his thumb stroking across my knuckles, I knew that my husband had returned.

"Enzo," I breathed, lurching forward onto the pallet where he lay on the floor. I practically threw myself on top of him and began peppering his face and neck with kisses, reveling in the feeling of his hands on me.

When I didn't feel him returning the kisses, though, I pulled back with a furrowed brow-only to find that he was blinking up at me, lips slightly parted, pointing at his throat.

"W-Water," he croaked, his voice drier and cracked than a desert on the hottest day of the year.

into the water, I returned and kneeled beside him, helping him to sit up. As he sipped the

I chuckled. "I guess I got a little caught up in the

his face; I think he would have laughed along with me, but the parched state of his throat thoroughly prohibited any

my furrowed brow, he clarified in a

you get here, anyway? All on your

there. But I didn't mind. Here, in the peace and quiet of

more rested after a

to inspect Enzo's injuries. "You look as good as new." He

"If it weren't for the medics here, we would have had no idea

in agreement. "Medical school didn't exactly prepare us for treating injuries in jungles in other realms,"

forth between the two of us, his eyes taking on that bemused look that he always had when my friends and I interacted. And for a moment, just a moment, things