I open my eyes, and I see a bunch of demon wolves staring down at my face. I know each of these faces, and I'm happy to see them, but there is one that is not present. He was the one that I truly wanted to see. I can't remember much of the fight; the last thing I remembered was being stabbed in the stomach by Seth. Everything after that was a blur; I remember Caelan shouting my name and crying for me to open my eyes right before I lost consciousness.
I felt guilty in those final seconds because I knew that I was making Caelan relive his past of losing his mate. That was the last thing I ever wanted to do to him. He had been through enough already; I couldn't wait to see him, to see how happy he would be knowing that I was alive.
But what happened after I lost consciousness? Did we win or
