Phoenix Selected by Claire Luana

Author:Claire Luana [Luana, Claire]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Live Edge Publishing

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I screamed as pain ripped through my hand and up my arm. The sword was magicked somehow—it must have been a protective enchantment. The sword clattered to the floor as I cradled my injured hand against me. I looked down at the burn and gasped.

The same symbol was burned into my palm as had been branded into my father’s. And Konstantin’s. I looked at the sword with new realization dawning. Somehow, this blade was the same sword from my father’s story. He’d always said he’d left it in the dragon’s lair. Another lie.

An explosion across the room startled me back to where I was. The dragon had broken through the wall, busting the concrete around the door frame to create a hole large enough for his body to get through. He advanced on me now, his fangs bared, his golden eyes ablaze with fury.

The fight drained out of me. I was trapped. This creature could snap me in one bite. Even if I somehow got past him, I would never get up the elevator and get free. Was Dad’s secret worth dying for?

I held up my hands, the burn throbbing on one palm. “I surrender.”

The dragon hissed at me, and then its eyes went wide. Its head snaked close, examining the burn, sniffing at me with huge nostrils. I knew he was intelligent, that there was a man in there, but still my stomach quaked with fear at his nearness.

The clamor of boots reached my ears and I turned to the gaping doorway just in time for Konstantin to appear, half a dozen armed men behind him.

“You.” His weapon was trained on me. The dragon’s body was still between us, but it vanished in an instant as the shifter returned to human form.

“She’s surrendered,” the shifter said as Konstantin approached in one fluid movement, the muzzle of his gun still fixed upon me.

And then he shot me.

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