34-Thorne POV
The battle stopped with a grinding halt. Silence filled the air as Stone looked on in horror. He lifted his head to the sky and howled before tearing off the field, leaving his band of rogues to figure out their escape on their own. I didn't care. I held the love of my life in my hands. The woman who had fought bravely by my side...the one whose sacrifice unlocked every memory that had been blocked until she took her last breath. I hardly noticed the wound in my stomach slowly closing until it was just a twisted, ugly scar, a remembrance to the day I lost everything that meant anything to me.
I couldn't let this be the end. I didn't care about winning or losing...it was all pointless to me now. Laying my head on her unmoving chest, I felt for a pulse through tears in my ey
