Page 73 of A Dragon's Miracle (Fires of Fate)

I punched him again. And again.

I never stopped until he shifted back and one of the officials pulled me off him and told me that I had won the fight. For a second or so, I didn’t even know what fight he was talking about because my enemy wasn’t dead yet. Finally, though, my injured body forced me to shift back into my human form and things started making a little more sense again.

Ryan was by my side in an instant, nearly hysteric. “Finn! Oh my God, you’re bleeding!” I looked at my shoulder, still feeling kind of detached from my body. He was right, though. Iwasbleeding. Pretty heavily, too. But that didn’t shock me as much as the sight of Jin before me. He was a bruised and bloodied mess.

HadIdone that?

I stared at my hands. I’d never had someone else’s blood on them before.

“Finn? Are you listening?”

I turned to Ryan and just stared at him for a moment. He hugged me with one arm, careful not to touch the side where I’d been hurt.

“You did it,” he whispered. “You really did it!”

I only nodded. He made it sound like something I should be proud of, but was it? Was it really? “Did I do the right thing?”

Ryan kissed my cheek and then looked me in the eyes, a serious expression on his face. “You did what you had to do. And you did well.”

I took a deep breath, relief over my victory finally washing over me. Ryan was right; I’d only done what I’d had to do. I’d saved my mate and my child. And I was really kind of exhausted. Knowing that it was all over, I slumped against Ryan and let myself be held by him until a medic came to attend to my wounds.