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."

don't want to be the queen. I want to go

all that." Enzo turned me to 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

at me. Slowly, I gave

of the procession toward the heart of the palace-toward the Council

felt like a stranger here. Unwanted. Although by whom, I couldn't be sure; maybe it was all in my head, my own

finally made our way to the Council chambers, I paused, pressing my hand over my belly and drawing in a deep breath to steady myself. Enzo remained silent beside me, his

a few moments, Enzo looked down at me with a soft

to myself. I could open a portal and go back to Mountainview. No one would

mirror hanging on the wall. It was then, as my eyes caught one another in the glass,

I didn't have to