In the Ice Kingdom the strong rule, and the weak are sold to the highest bidder.
I learned that lesson when the Hunters captured me and left me less than whole. When I escaped, my friends were the only ones to keep me going. I’d do anything for them.
Anything but believe them when they say that this Elite is different. It doesn’t matter that I wear Dirk’s marks on my side. It doesn’t matter what he says.
I know the type of people he’s lived among, and I know what they’re capable of. Yet everything pushes me toward him, even my freshly awakened dragon.
She preens for him and thinks that he’s the best thing we’ve ever smelled. A cool breeze on a hot day. A clean shirt just off the line. But she wasn’t there for me when I needed her most.
When the days were dark, and the pain in my stomach felt like it would never fade. So I can’t listen to her now, when she insists I let him in. Not just because it was dragons like him who broke me.
But because after my friends glued me back together, he shattered me with a single truth. Dirk I want nothing more than to claim her. Yet I cannot. She deserves more than a Prince.
She deserves a good man. Something I have never been. Although my dragon and I are united in our desire to hold her tight, I must stay away. I must protect her from everything. Especially myself.
Because our pasts are more closely entangled than she knows…
