I planned to keep my distance from dragons—but instead I became an assistant to one of them. Lord Adanarne Cayner is a villain you’d be hard-pressed to find elsewhere: smart, driven, and determined to seize power in the empire by any means necessary. From someone like that you can’t really run away, and our contract signed in blood forces me to help the monster with everything. But what if a simple healer-on-call and an irreplaceable assistant isn’t enough for him? What if—one day—the dragon wants me completely?