Defying Fate

“Callie?”

I could remember it so clearly now.

The way Cass had feebly tried to cover the wound on his neck, bleeding profusely as the ground simply absorbed it. I’d grabbed his hand and cried into it, stroking his hair as he died. As the light in his golden eyes slowly faded.

And then there was Kaelen as his wolf, walking away from his body with blood around his mouth. It wasn’t because he atta