C30

ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY

-Amara? Can you hear me?

I opened my eyes too slowly, there were two people in front of me, watching me with concern: Elder and Flavia.

-She's reacting," Flavia says to Elder, as if I wasn't listening. -Are you all right, Amara?

I put my hand to my head because it hurt a lot, as I sat down. I was on the couch in a living room. It was in Elder's house, it was night and it was still raining outside.

-What happened to me? -was what I asked. I had certain memories but my ideas were not clear just now.

Flavia and Elder gave each other quick, complicit glances.

-What's the matter?

-The important thing is that you're okay," Flavia sits next to me. -I thought you died in there.

Then I remembered everything all at once: wolves, fight, Wade, dead Karla and the bite. I thought I had died too. But apparently life has given me a second chance.

-Amara, there's something I need to tell you," Elder sits up and scans me.

-What happened with Wade? -I wanted to know -And Melania? The