My Hockey Alpha by Eve Above Story PDF

Chapter 0809

Enzo sighed and walked up to me. "I think you look beautiful."

"I look like a porcelain doll. This is ridiculous. I'm not a queen."

"Hey. None of that." Enzo's voice was tender but insistent as his arms circled around me from behind, his chin propped on top of my head as he studied my reflection in the mirror. "You look every inch the queen you were born to be."

I sniffled, leaning back against the reassuring warmth of his chest as my hand strayed to the taut swell of my abdomen. "Do I, though?" I whispered. "Or will I simply be a Luna in the shadows, like all women? Your voice giving the orders while I play the ornamental figurehead? A pretty doll to look at, but have no use?"

For a beat, Enzo was silent-contemplative. When he finally spoke, his words were measured but firm. "Your title may bear the name Luna, but make no mistake you will reign as the Alpha Queen."

to be the queen. I want to go

face him, his brown eyes catching the light. "But here, you have to play your part. You don't need to be here all of the time; but you can't abandon a realm that belongs

or placation, but found only steadfast belief reflecting back at me. Slowly, I gave a shaky nod, squaring my shoulders beneath the heavy weight of my jacket.

current of the procession toward the heart of

stranger here. Unwanted. Although by whom, I couldn't be sure; maybe it

steady myself. Enzo remained silent beside me, his hand never leaving the small of my back. His presence was like an anchor. I just wished that the

moments, Enzo looked down at me with a soft expression in

run, I thought to myself. I could open a portal and go back to Mountainview. No one would see

on the wall. It was then, as my eyes caught one another in the glass, that it felt as if the fog cleared-I saw a queen, and a mother, and a

didn't have