I couldn't make sense of the mess in my head. Diego was dead, and that was the main thing, the devastating thing. Other than that, the fight was over, my coven had lost and my enemies had won. But my dead coven was full of people who would have loved to watch me burn, and my enemies were speaking to me kindly when they had no reason to.
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella (ed. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2010) - ISBN: 9780316127684