My eyes snapped open as I felt hands lifting me to my feet and shoving me aside. I saw only darkness as the person above me used his body as a shield, when the dragon landed on the edge of the tree line and swiped at us with its claws. Darkness lifted and I saw the dragon; wine-red blood rolled down the dragon’s scales from various points. The gun had penetrated the armored scales! I turned to my savior, attempting to ask how he knew to shoot the dragon but forgetting that I was in my wolf form, and froze. Our eyes met and my world shattered. Jared? It couldn’t be! He was out of the Blood Moon Corporation’s system when he was supposed to be on assignment. There was only one way that happened–when a rogue member had to be terminated…literally. Here he stood and… I was dead. That had to be it. The dragon killed me and now I was dead. I felt my wolf form melt away and I lay on the cold ground, looking up at Jared with the morning sun blazing behind him.
