Chapter One
DYMITRI
In the blink of an eye, everything had changed. One minute, I was sitting awkwardly in the royal hall of my ancestors, hardly able to believe our reversal of fortune. The next, my brother and I were told that our fated mates were human women.
That would have been enough of a surprise. My brother and I had always assumed that we didn’t have fated mates. Only the luckiest of shifters enjoyed that privilege.
But the real shock came when Marienne told us that these women—these strangers—were in danger. She said we had to fly to the human realm immediately and save them, before they were lost forever.
My brother and I shifted into our dragons and launched off the palace balcony into the air. We followed King Stavrok, who had agreed to accompany us. We’d never been sout
