My Hockey Alpha by Eve Above Story PDF

Chapter 305

Bonus 5: The Tease

Enzo

Dust and sweat clung to my skin as I wrestled with the new living room furniture.

It was a final touch to the renovations we’d been slogging through for months, transforming our once dull house into a vibrant home. Despite the exhaustion tugging at my muscles, a sense of satisfaction washed over me as I looked around the house. Our house.

Just as I was finishing up on the final bench for our massive dining room table, my phone buzzed in my pocket.

A picture of Nina lit up the screen, her smile making my lips curve in response. “Hey, love,” I answered, using my cleanest elbow to press the speaker button.

“Enzo,” she started, and I could already hear the hesitation in her voice.

“I… uh… had a little run-in with a raccoon. I maybe… sort of… kind of got myself stuck in a ditch.”

The last part of her sentence came out all at once like an avalanche. I could tell immediately that she was embarrassed. And I was a man; it was my job to capitalize on her embarrassment. What good would it be if I didn’t tease my fiancee a little?

I couldn’t help but burst out laughing. A raccoon?” 1 chortled. “Are you telling me you swerved off of the road because of a little raccoon?”

“Yes, okay! It was scary, alright? And I didn’t wanna hit it!” Nina huffed on the other end of the line. I could almost see her pouting, her arms crossed in defiance.

I couldn’t stop myself from teasing her relentlessly; to think that Nina Harper, the strong and independent woman who pretty much single-handedly saved the entire town of Mountainview from the Crescents, survived on her own with a bullet hole in her leg, got spooked by a little raccoon.

as I stood and wiped the sawdust off of my hands. “Raccoons today, and what’s

pick me up,” she said, ignoring my jabs. “And

sighed, trying to smother my laughter as my voice took on a more serious tone. “I’m on my way. You’re

Nina replied, letting out a small sigh of relief. “Just artnoyed, both at myself

hung up and prepared to leave. Just as I was heading out the door, however,

in a cracked frame, forgotten in the whirlwind of renovations. I picked it up gently, tracing the image of her smiling face.

too. As much as he could be a bastard sometimes after my mom died, I still missed him. I wanted nothing more than to make up for

my mother likely would have loved the bright colors and the eclectic furniture. I think that my father would have liked it, too, although he seemed

I didn’t think that he ever actually liked the color gray. I think that it was really just a way for him to punish himself, a way to convey the feeling in his heart

photograph down and made a mental note

satisfied look around the nearly finished living room,

ten minutes down the road, I spotted her. As I pulled up next to Nina’s car in the ditch, I found her sitting on the hood with a stubborn pout on her

my concern, her sulky expression struck me as comical,

out of my pickup truck – it was really my father’s truck, but I decided to use it rather

act of ransacking my dad’s house was more of a way to show their disrespect than anything else. They may as well have spat on his grave. But I supposed that it was a good thing that they didn’t know where he was buried. “I think

but I could see a smile tugging at her