Blaze Gabriella Hayes. She was the most beautiful creature I’d ever seen, and I knew from the moment I laid eyes on her that I wanted her to be mine. No, I didn’t want her to be mine; I needed her. The way a fire needs oxygen to burn, I needed her to survive. It was so hard to do the right thing and allow her to go home to Luca night after night, but I wanted her to come to me on her own. I knew in my heart that she was the only one I’d ever want, but if she didn’t feel the same way, what was the point? One of the reasons dragons had become so rare was one-sided pairings. One person would feel a pull, but the other wouldn’t, kind of like my brother Drake and Fiona. He thought that she was meant to be his, but she didn’t reciprocate, and they never got the chance to be toget