I sat on the couch inside Jax's house, hands tucked beneath my legs. I stared straight ahead, my gaze unfocused. The massive spike of adrenaline that had kept me going earlier was now gone. My dragon was sound asleep inside of me, and I was completely numb, unable to fully comprehend what had happened. What I'd done.

Jax draped a blanket around my shoulders and sat beside me, head hung. Neither of us had really spoken all that much since we'd left the woods surrounding the ...