Hidden Flame: Bound to the Triplet Dragon Kings

Chapter 7: Married Life

Avery

station was laid out when Mrs. More told the students, who had not bothered to read her note, to I am trying to memorize how y go to a station. I kept my eyes glued to my course guide when she told a boy to go to my station. I heard mumbling as he approached which made me look up. Fuck! It’s Clint and he looks about as happy about it as I feel.

“Avery, don’t say a word, he growls. Yeah, I don’t plan on it, bucko What I am wondering is why is fate so cruel? Rarely have I been in a class with one of The Trio, yet now the last half of my school day is consumed by them. I can’t escape them! Why can’t I escape

them?

Our wills and fates do so contrary run, that our devices are overthrown; our thoughts are ours, their end none of our own.”

William Shakespeare

Maybe Shakespeare is right and that’s why I can’t escape them. For some reason, they were put in my path to my freedom. But what am I to learn from this obstacle? Thus far, The Trio has only shown the how not to be and why humans and dragons should not co- exist. What good is in these boys, because I have yet to see any.

be like in an effort to make your transition into adulthood easier. I wish that this class existed when I found my mate because then I would not have had to ask the nobles for a new

to have a mate who can cook too as well as help me with the housework, to have a true partner. Unfortunately, though, I am buman and mates don’t exist like that for us. As I gaze out of the window near Mrs. Moore, I wonder what my

daydream, I see myself standing at a sink washing vegetables so that I can prepare them as a side for our dinner. I can smell the cake baking in the oven and hear the sizzling of the steaks on the nearby grill. I am humming a song that I remember my mother singing before my parents were killed. “La na nay, there will come a day. Stars will shine and you will learn how you are mine,” I heard myself sing in an unfamiliar whispered tone. Then

twit,” he grumbles. And I am plunged from my intimate

Clint

fuck it. I know that Cassius still longs for his mate, even if he will not admit it, while Conner just wants an heir so that He can take the throne, which he thinks we do not know. I don’t care about any of it. I don’t want a mate or any type

Carter, and I are in complete agreement on that Too. But he does get a

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7: Married

I do not think that my brother and I’s fate will be any different/But unlike them, I will not

just have to figure out how to have her do my projects in this class and make sure Mrs. Moote never finds out. That would give me so much more free time to fuck. But if she is going to be my academic slave, I need her

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