Claimed by the Savage Dragons

I was a survivor once. A business owner. A woman with roots.
Now I’m nothing but tribute—a living offering from the humans who betrayed me.

Dragged north into the toxic wastelands, I’m delivered to the creatures we were told were myths.
Dragons.
Ancient. Ruthless. Beautiful.
And as deadly as they are divine.

Their mountain kingdom burns with fire and secrets. Their leader, Draythos, is a crimson nightmare wrapped in muscle and rage. His lieutenants, Abraxus and Torvial, are no gentler—possessive, dangerous, and far too curious about me.
They hate humans.
They protect me.
They want me.

I’m supposed to be their prey.
But when desire turns to obsession, even dragons learn to fear what they can’t control.
Because I might not just belong to them—
I might be the one thing that can save or destroy their dying race.

I’m Mari. Human. Rejected. Claimed.
And this is how I became the mate of monsters.

He was never meant to crave her.
Humans were made to serve.
To bleed, to please, to burn.
We are their gods, not their saviors.

But our kind is fading—too few females, too much fury—and desperation breeds hunger.
Then she came.

Mari. Defiant. Fragile. Temptation wrapped in mortal skin.
When she glares, I forget my duty. When she trembles, I want to cage her.
She should fear us…
Yet she’s the one we can’t stop fearing.

She’s our human offering—
and our fated mate.
Our salvation.
Our ruin…