
When the black dragon bonded to the enemy who destroyed her family chooses her as its second rider, their lives become bound together, drawing them into the truth behind the war and a forbidden attraction neither can escape.
I came to kill the man who wiped out my family.
My younger sibling had been the last of my family to die by his hand.
Kairon, the black dragon's bonded rider.
I leveled my dagger at his heart.
His black combat uniform was soaked with blood and rain, clinging to his body. His gold eyes gleamed like a predator's beneath his wet black hair. A black dragon pattern writhed as if alive across the chest exposed by his open collar.
He was dangerously beautiful.
I wanted to kill him, and I could not take my eyes off him.
"Do it."
Kairon smiled through bloodied lips.
"But if I die, you die with me."
At that moment, a black sigil appeared on my wrist.
The black dragon's mark. I had been chosen as its second bonded rider.
My breath caught.
The same dragon that had chosen my enemy had chosen me.
As the ceiling began to collapse, Kairon caught me around the waist and pulled me hard against him. His breath was hot against my ear.
"If you want to kill me, stay alive."
His golden gaze held mine as if he might swallow me whole.
"Because you're more than my enemy now. You're the woman bound to my fate."