Book 2: Chapter 56:

*Raine*

My heart stutters in my chest as Reid dives out of sight behind the tail that swings toward me. I try to twist, protecting myself from the hit as the heated scales crash into my side. A grunt of pain huff out of my mouth, my lungs expelling every ounce of air in them as my bones creak against the hit.

The pain blossoms up my ribcage as I brace for the hit on the ground, but it never comes.