Heat roared within him. Greedy heat. He wanted her.... She was in over her head, and it seemed... so was he.

She'd survived Brandon. Just to die all over again. "Well, hell." He smiled wanly at her. "Indeed.

dragon took what it wanted. Took and kept.

A dragon took what it wanted. Took and kept.

Send the mediator to me when he comes." "What are you going to do?" Matthew knew him so well. Thane would handle this the old way. "I'm going to eat him.

You see?" Thane waved at the photo. "Everything about her is nonsensical. A dragon who lies with a wolf? I suppose pigs fly and the moon is blue, too.

Thane Ealdian prowls the earth once more. Shutter your houses. Bar your doors. Offer him gold and women to satisfy his cravings. A black dragon is like the very devil himself.

He was just Thane. Timeless. Ageless. Magic. The world turned around him.

Fire is fire," Matthew said. "It burns.