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By now, the other guard had been aware and shifted into a large grizzly bear. The hairy body ripped through the clothes the guard had worn, and the bear attacked the dragon, which had crawled through the window with a slithering, almost snake-like body. It had to be something other than a dragon, but I didn’t know my mythological creatures well enough.
“Run, Emmie!” I shouted and grabbed her hand, dragging her out of the room with me while the bear and the snake-like beast attacked each other.
The sound of hissing and growling scraped against my skin, making me feel sick.
A moment later, the sound of the bear growling was cut short, and I didn’t have to go back and see to guess that the second guard had been taken care of, too.
We ran to the back door. The safe house wasn’t as safe as Wesley had said it would be. The monsters were inside the house now, and outside was our best bet.
We crossed the limp bodies of guards in all stages of shifting. Men, fully clothed, half-shifted beasts impossible to identify, animals in their true form. They lay scattered across the floor, lifeless. The guards who should have protected us were gone.
When I threw the back door open, I froze.
In front of me, a pack of wolves had collected in the yard.
They turned their heads toward us when I opened the door, eyes glowing with different jewel tones in the night.
This wasn’t good. I wasn’t about to ask them if they were friendly. I didn’t want to take the chance. Right now, everyone was the enemy, and if we didn’t do something to get out of here, we were going to die.
I couldn’t see it going any other way.
The blood curdling roar of a dragon up above shattered the night air, and we both looked up.
A blast of fire lit up the sky so that it looked like daylight for a moment, and then an incredibly powerful dragon, with black scales that shimmered like an oil slick, dropped itself on the pack of wolves.
Wesley.
I’d seen his dragon before, large and black, his scales dancing with magic, each seemingly with a life and a pulse of its own. He spewed fire again, and he was incredible to watch. His body had to be the size of a truck, or a camper van, or something else equally enormous, but he moved with a fluid grace like that of a true predator. He was a sight to behold, moving with such incredible elegance. The wolves all attacked at the same time, but the scales on Wesley’s body made it hard for them to get a hold unless their mouths could close around something like a claw or the tip of a wing.
I covered Emmie’s eyes to spare her from seeing the carnage that would inevitably follow.
With a thick tail, Wesley slammed three wolves into a wall at once. He clawed at another, disemboweling the beast, and his teeth sunk into the thick fur of a wolf who’d turned and ran.
Watching him fight was like watching something from a movie. I couldn’t help myself. I knew I was watching something terrible, but I couldn’t look away—like a wreck on the highway which I knew would scar me for life, but I just had to see the morbidity of it all.
Except, it wasn’t morbid. It was breathtaking.
The magic that rolled off Wesley was undeniable. It was aggressive, the magic, and possessive, and maybe the wolves would have stood a chance if at the core of the magic there wasn’t such rage, but there was no way any of them were going to survive this.
Finally, Wesley had taken out all the wolves. He turned toward us, his dragon’s body large and trembling after the fight, steam blowing from his nostrils as he panted.
Emmie let go of my hand and walked toward him.
“Baby, no…” I started, but Wesley dropped his head low, and Emmie reached her hand forward until she touched the dragon’s nose.
She wasn’t scared of him, despite his terrifying form, and she wasn’t upset by all the bodies that lay scattered around her.
“I’m like you,” Emmie said softly. “Right?”
The dragon couldn’t answer, but it lifted its head and looked at me with cerulean eyes—Wesley’s eyes.
Finally, the dragon shrank away. Slowly, at first, getting smaller, until the body started to change, too. Finally, Wesley stood before us in all his naked glory.
Emmie turned away from him before he was in a completely naked form, looking at me. Where had her wisdom come from? Why did she understand this world so well even though she’d never been a part of it?
“Go inside,” Wesley said curtly. “Pack your things.”
“What happened?” I asked.
