Chapter 15
I stirred awake, stretching out over the bed, and hoping for the tell-tale heat of Devon’s body. Except that it didn’t come. There was no Devon next to me. There was no one next to me. I guessed that this was going to be half of my life now. An empty shell with no person to share it with.
Except that wasn’t entirely true. I could hear Sian humming to herself while she showered, and it was only the rational part of my brain that kept me from jumping to my feet and going to join her. It’s what I would have done a few weeks ago, but now nothing was the same. Now, I wasn’t the same. I’d been a dragon after all. Not for very long, true, but I’d still been one. And it’d still affected me in ways I hadn’t expected.
My dragon body felt so right. Certainly far more right than my vampi
