Chapter 88. Back to Reality

I’m confused, my muddled mind losing its grip on reality as I clutch so desperately to keep some sense of awareness, but that’s Colton’s voice…I know that voice, but I can’t see him, and the warmth of his touch can’t be real. Because he’s a wolf, and he’s the one killing me.

A tingling sensation starts at my arm, another on my throat, and spreads to my chest as it feels like my body is pulled into a strong, cradling embrace. Weight is hauled from me. Against all my expectations, my eyes flutter open as darkness starts to recede, and a pair of amber eyes in a familiar face is only inches from mine, reflecting a blue glow that brings my sight down to where it’s coming from. My brain is so cloudy that I stare numbly, with no sense of recognition for a second.

Human hands… blue healing glow on my arm and my upper chest and the armor, it’s lying beside me, dented, curled and slashed, and yet I can’t get my bearings at all. I don’t know what’s happening anymore.

“Colton?