Now that they were out of immediate danger, the full impact of what had happened engulfed her. She’d gotten Nick hurt and forced him into a situation where he had to fight despite what he wanted. She felt awful. Not so much for this particular fight. This situation had been an accident, a miscommunication. The problem was she had come here purposefully trying to force him back to the Mate Run where he would have to fight again. Despite the rules of the Run that forbade male challenge fights, she couldn’t ignore the reality that if she was here breaking those rules, it was likely the males would break them too and come after Nick—just as he’d warned her they would. She was in love with him. How could she ask him to go back to that? He was a magnificent fighter. He’d taken on an angry, vengeful werewolf while he was still in human form and he’d won, coming away with only a broken arm. She knew he’d be able to handle any tiger who challenged him. But he shouldn’t have to. Not when he’d gone out of his way to avoid it all these years.
