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  “Well, he won't fit in the front. And we won't all fit either. I'll sit in the back with Taurian, and Lisa can drive.”

  She was glad none of them argued with her any further. Once Lisa brought the blanket, they managed to lift Taurian onto it, and then into the bed of the ute. Though their rough handling must have hurt him, he didn't make a sound. Karla hoped it was stoic bravery, and not that he'd fallen unconscious from the pain.

  Once he was laid out, she climbed in beside him and wrapped the blanket around him as carefully as possible. Jamming her feet against the tire wells, she lifted his head into her lap.

  “Are you sure you don't want me to sit in there and help you?” Lisa offered.

  “I'm fine,” Karla said a little too quickly. “And besides, you need to drive. Bruce doesn't know where we're going.”

  “My trip here took a slightly different route,” Bruce joked.

  Karla did a double take. Was Bruce, sensible, cautious, serious Bruce, making a joke in a serious situation? Maybe she'd misjudged him too.

  There was no time for pondering that though. Eager to be away from the dragon’s lair, Bruce and Lisa didn’t argue any further, just climbed into the ute and headed off, bouncing through the bush. Then Karla was far too busy holding onto Taurian, and trying to keep his body from bumping all over the place on the rough drive back to the main road.

  Taurian didn't even seem to react to the bumps and twists. Was he still conscious? Karla's body wound up tight, fear coalescing in a tight wad in the middle of her stomach. The only thing that stopped her banging on the glass and stopping the ute to check on him was the way his body twitched every time she took her hand off his shoulders to clutch at the edge of the ute.

  She felt so helpless. She may have been able to help him transform back into his human form, but she had no idea what to do next. This couldn’t be all there was to the Mesmer ritual. But she didn’t have any dragons around to tell her what to do next.

  What if she couldn’t help him?

  Was it really her problem? She wasn’t bonded to him now, the Mesmer ritual was complete. She could just step out of this problem and leave it all behind.

  She should get out while she could, that would be the sensible thing to do. But there was no way she was leaving now.

  She looked down at the unconscious man in her arms, studying every angle of his jaw and curve of his lips. There was no way she was leaving him. There was something here, something worth exploring further. She had no idea if they had any hope of a future together, but she wanted the chance to find out.

  To do that though, she had to find a way to help him survive.

  The End

  Want to know what happens to Karla and Taurian next? Part 4, Healing the Dragon, is available for preorder now!

  With Prince Taurian seriously wounded and barely conscious after his fight with a rival dragon, Karla knows he needs to enter the Mesmer to heal. Trouble is, she knows nothing about the magical ritual. Can she figure it out and devise a plan to save them before their enemy returns?

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  With time running out before his clan’s prince is discovered by mining or killed by enemy dragons, dragon shifter Jayrian needs to convince the elders to accept help from the humans. He hopes that the clever librarian, Gretchen, might be able to help him with that. He didn’t count on falling for her—that wasn’t part of his plan at all.

  Gretchen longs for adventure outside of the books she reads in her job as a small town librarian. But not the kind that involves her moving to the big city to take the promotion her Aunt Mary offers. The cute guy who’s been hanging around the library seems far more exciting—there’s just something about him that draws her—so on impulse, she invites him to her family’s Christmas celebration. When a dragon lands on the front of her car on the way there, she wonders if she’s gotten more than she bargained for.

  Together they must find a way to save his prince and clan, without sacrificing who they are, or their budding relationship.

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  If you read a Rinelle Grey story, you can trust in a happy ending. Love will always triumph, even if it seems impossible… Rinelle Grey writes feel-good romance usually in science fiction or fantasy settings. Her heroines are independent and headstrong, and her stories are hard to put down.

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