Total pages in book: 29
Estimated words: 27900 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 140(@200wpm)___ 112(@250wpm)___ 93(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 27900 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 140(@200wpm)___ 112(@250wpm)___ 93(@300wpm)
I quickly climb up the stone wall of my house and stand on the roof as he comes. He heads straight for me and my heart pounds in excitement as I wait. I’ve been waiting to make this guy pay for touching my girl for too long. Well, the wait is over.
I grit my teeth and flex my arms as I glare at him. His huge jaws open and just as he arrives over my house, he lets out a ball of fire that surges toward me. I leap over it and grab onto his scaly foot, pulling him down as he tries to rise. My feet leave the burning roof as he struggles to fly higher with my heavy body weighing him down.
“She’s my girl,” I hiss as I reach up and try to grab his wing. My fingers graze it and my body swings back down when I’m unable to grab a hold of it.
My inner grizzly is chomping in my ear, desperate to get out. He’ll get his turn, but first, I want my taste. I want this guy to feel my wrath.
I time the flapping of his wing and when it swings back down, I lurch back up and grab the tip. This time I get a hold of it and yank it down.
The dragon lets out a chirping roar as we start spinning downward like a helicopter with the tail shot out. “No!” I gasp when I see the fire spreading on the roof of my house. Chloe is inside.
Panic starts to fill me as we crash through the trees, snapping branches and breaking trunks before we land hard on the ground. The air is knocked out of my lungs and I can’t breathe as I look around for the dragon. He’s pinned between two trees and can’t move.
“Alright, you furry motherfucker,” I tell my bear as I push up to my knees. “You’ve been a savage bastard my whole life. Now, it’s time to make it all worth it. It’s time for you to shine.”
I let the beast loose and he comes roaring out. He explodes out of me, pissed and ready to defend what’s ours.
I watch from inside as he lets out a deafening roar and charges at the dragon.
Chapter Fourteen
Chloe
I’m getting a seriously bad case of déjà vu as the house fills with smoke. I run outside and frantically look around for Ethan, but he’s nowhere to be seen.
It hits me even more how much I love him and I don’t know what I’m going to do with myself if something happens to him. Ethan told me all about mates and how happily ever after the couples live after they bond, but what about when one of them dies? He didn’t say anything to me about that. About the extreme heartbreak. The intense loneliness. The feeling of wanting to die because you know you’ll never find anything even remotely similar to what you had.
Stop, Chloe. Don’t start spiraling, you have shit to do!
I look up at the roof and curse when I see the flames spreading along it. This place has felt like home over the past few days and I can’t watch it burn.
I rush into the house with my heart hammering in my chest and head straight to the phone. I call 911 and ask the girl who answers named Kinsley to send the fire department over as soon as possible.
After that, I run back outside and grab the hose on the side of the house. I turn it on and try to spray the water onto the flames, but it’s spreading so fast and the water can’t reach much higher than the side of the house.
That’s when I hear the fighting. The sounds are so vicious that they make my legs weak with terror. I know the savage roaring is Ethan’s bear. I know he’s fighting for me, but I still hate that he’s going through this right now and I hate even more that I’m the cause of it. I’ve been nothing but trouble for him since I walked into his life.
The horrible sounds get louder and more vicious as the two animals go at it. I can’t see them, but I can see the tops of the trees shaking where they are.
My eyes are glued to the spot for what feels like hours when suddenly, Aylwin’s dragon comes bursting through the trees into the air.
“Oh my God!” I shout as my hand flies to my mouth. Ethan’s grizzly bear is on top of him, clutching onto the back of the dragon’s neck with his powerful jaws. The rest of his body is hanging down and I can’t breathe as they go higher and higher. If he falls from that height, he’ll surely die.
When they get over the lake, the weight of the bear becomes too much for the dragon or maybe the blood he’s losing from the wound on his neck is making him weaker, but he begins to fall. With Ethan still holding on.