Chapter Sixty

(Cara's POV)

The day had finally come. The fight would begin by sundown.

"You can do this," Teo said to me, even if I wasn't sure I could.

Rollins hasn't returned; I was in this alone. Well, at least I still had Teo.

I arrived at the clearing with Teo and Lucian; almost all the pack members were there, and they seemed surprised that I even showed up—that wasn't a shock to me either. They parted the way for me.

Emmaline was already there, right in the middle of the ring that had been set on fire. She was ready; I could see it in her stance, and so was I too. Even if I knew deep down that I couldn't beat her, I wasn't ready to lose either; it was just some strange determination in me.

"We fight to surrender," she said to me. I knew she would have preferred a fight to death, but that wasn't possible. She knew that, being the mate to the Alpha, she couldn't kill me.

I nodded, taking off my coat and discarding it on the bare ground. Then I felt his presence.

He was there, my eyes searched