14
Bella
The first thing I heard was my own breath echoing around me like I was wearing scuba gear, or had my head in a box.
Curious, I opened my eyes.
Not a box, a tube. I would have panicked, but the top was clear and I wasn’t claustrophobic. Besides, the blue light all around me made everything tingle…in a good way. A warm, I’m-not-in-pain-anymore way.
I faded in and out, dozing like a sleepy kitten, so comfortable. I tried not to think about what waited for me on the outside. Rager. Evon and his family. Liam and his stoic pain.
All I’d wanted was to be loved, to have a family, someone who cared for me. But nothing had worked out and I’d hurt the men I loved more than I’d helped them.
Love. Yes. Dying in that cold, all I’d been able to think about was being with my men, surrounde
