Chapter 75

  “Please,” I gasped, clinging to the wrist of the hand that held my throat, his grip both my lifeline and my torment as I struggled to breathe. It was a very long way down, and the wind seemed determined to take me. All it would take was his fingers to release… “Please, I seek the dragon.”

  He snarled at me, his lip curling back from his straight, white teeth. The incisors and the premolar were longer and sharper than mankind. Even with such a savage expression on his face, he was ridiculously handsome for someone about to kill me. “Why do you seek the dragon?” He demanded.

  “Where are your clothes?” Not, I reprimanded myself, the response to give when your life hung upon your words. It did, however, seem to puzzle him. He frowned as he brought me back onto the ledge and released my throat. I collapsed onto my hands and knees, gasping, and holding to the stone with gratitude, prostrating myself to maximise my contact with safety.