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 the

waiting by my locker. He whispers, “Are you ready

“About that…umm…Clint is taking me to a

walked away. I feel

competition between them because if it does,

will be. As I

car. After I made sure that she couldn’t see me, I

his blue sports

I did in

the human

are no exception. Every year, they buy

use their stock dividends to

also use it

the radio. “What music

know. I don’t have a radio. I

you like, hit this

longest that I have ever spent time around them. I know

know them

imagined that you would

the undead doesn’t

I think that