Gabriel
Darkness overcomes me. My rage melds with my dragon-mind, and before I know it, I’m in the sky, shifted from my human form into the great monster who nearly decimated my own castle.
I fly hard and fast, pumping my wings, needing to feel the air against my scales to cool the flames that lick up my throat. I end up over the Black Sea, where I dive into the dark waters, swimming ever deeper, trying to cool the storm inside me.
It doesn’t work.
I surface and belch a rage of fire that would’ve incinerated any ships in a half-mile radius had they been near.
I can’t have Tabitha.
I can’t have her.
Mate, my dragon instinct argues.
You nearly killed our mate! Again!
I belch more fire, boiling the water beneath me. To cool the inferno, I dive beneath the surface again, flapping my w
