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Ethan

I glanced up at Rudolph as the door opened. I wished I could have joined the battle but Ava had become so sick that I couldn't leave her alone. Pregnancy was always hard on vampires and I already concluded that I wasn't getting her pregnant again no matter how beautiful she looked.

Her fever had gone down and she was sleeping peacefully but my own heart wasn't at peace. What was going on on the battlefield? What had happened? How many men had the other king brought with him? Who was winning? Were we the one? How was it? How tough was the war? Who had dared to want my wife? I almost ran myself crazy with questions as I sat there in the room, tending over Ava and torturing myself with imagination of what was going on at the battlefield.

I breathed a sigh of relief as Rudolph walked in. That had to mean the war was over and the enemies had fled to their land. He wouldn't have been here otherwise but his blank expression wasn't helping.

The war was over but had we lost? Was he sad b