Chapter 173.

We were sitting in the hospital room. Gabe came a few hours ago and Nora pulled a chair up to the bed and hadn’t moved for the past three hours. We were waiting for Hazel to wake up, she was healing quickly and had been given blood all night, she should be good as new before nightfall. I kept going over my talk with Zade in my head- how he made me think I was giving up my Lycan to save Hazel’s life and if it ever came down to it, I would, in a heartbeat. She was everything, my breath and my heartbeats, they were for her.  This world was better because of her, and I knew, without a shadow of a doubt that I couldn’t live in a world where she didn’t exist. The babies held an equally large place within me, as did Kiera, I loved them all and would die for either one of them but Hazel was the core of everything that was me. Without her, everything else would crumble. “She’s waking up!” Nora said and I ran over to her side. Hazel’s eyes flickered open and she drew a soft breath. Our eyes lock