Hidden Flame: Bound to the Triplet Dragon Kings

*Avery**

I know that they said that they wanted a clean slate, but I still don’t trust it. Have they changed how

they treat me? Yes, and they had started before I was tortured and left for dead. “Fine, I will go.” I

didn’t want to sound eager and I didn’t want to not allow him a chance especially since he was the

one who noticed I was missing on Friday night. Plus, it will be nice to have another friend. Trisha is

my only friend here and I can’t be around her in public because of the Hags. What are they going to

do? Come up to Clint and question him. I wonder what he would say?

I used the rest of the class period to finish the date project. Clint offered a few suggestions here and

there, but I got the impression that he had never been on a real date. I haven’t either, but I have read

about plenty in the romance books that I read. I have not had a male friend since Tim. I hope that the

family who adopted him has given him a good life.

“Meet me at my car,” Clint says as the dismissal bell rings. I deposited the finished date on Mrs.

as I exited

by my locker. He whispers,

that…umm…Clint is taking me to a

before he shrugged and walked away. I

it does, the only

it will be. As I made my way into the parking lot,

away from Clint’s car. After I made sure that she couldn’t see me, I got

his blue sports

feel so out of place. I did in Conner’s dark red BMW but not as much as I do

human world, they only return with the best

are no exception. Every year, they buy the newest

either use their stock dividends to

also use it to pay

Clint turns on the radio. “What music do

don’t know. I don’t have a radio. I

you like, hit this button,” he says

have ever spent time around them. I know everything

know them

huh? I imagined that you would

the undead

I think that we