Cord had waited a damn long time for the end of the world. He'd starved for most of those eons and was frankly pissed it had taken so long to get here. Relief at last, time to go kill. An animal designed to destroy, Cord wasn't prepared for the astonishing instincts that overpowered everything he had thought he was. What he wanted more than life, more than the freedom of death was something he couldn't gather, command or capture--Kelly. There wasn't anything Kelly wouldn't do to protect her precious, gifted daughter. No act too humiliating, no job too difficult. Being the one thing the air dragon could not live without wasn't exactly hard labor, and the humiliation part so shockingly sensual it changed who she was. The problem she was having were the new items on her "to do" list--Dispense evil wizards, Dispose of vicious dragon army, Save world. Right.