My Hockey Alpha by Eve Above Story PDF

Chapter 0816

Had I really known him at all, I wondered? Or had I merely been too self-absorbed and naive to see past the facade of unshakable command he projected?

After a long silence, I found my voice. "Why didn't he ever tell me that?"

"He didn't want you to see his weakness, I suppose," Angelica replied with a small, sad smile. "He wanted you to respect him, look up to him, the way a daughter should see her father."

Her words stung, although I knew she didn't intend them to. The truth was, I hadn't gotten nearly enough time with my father to look up to him or see any side of him at all, really. In just a few short months, I had lost him.

A familiar ache blossomed in my chest as I contemplated just how much I had lost by his passing. How much I still didn't know, how much I might never know, about the man who had brought me into this world and the legacy I now shouldered in his wake.

My hand strayed unconsciously to the swell of my stomach as a new thought struck me. I couldn't imagine losing her for so long, just as my father had lost me. I wanted her to know me, the real me.

sister. Suddenly, I was pulled

murmured.

myself to stretch my aching back. A walk might

mansion's gardens, down the familiar path to the small family graveyard tucked off in the nearby forest

reaching out to trace the elegantly

could, staring unseeingly at the

together," I confessed in a small voice. "Maybe then I wouldn't feel so... fucking lost trying to fill your

beyond the veil as I had with my sister's grave during the Moon Festival. A whisper on the breeze, a flicker of

time, there was nothing but silence and stillness all

its own way, even through the tears that had clouded my eyes-a gentle reminder that my father's spirit had moved