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.

desk as I exited

by my locker. He whispers, “Are

and whisper, “About that…umm…Clint is taking me to a

before he shrugged and walked away. I feel terrible now.

into a competition between them because if it does, the only loser will be

on everything that I have read it will be. As I made my way into the

made sure that she

blue

so out of place. I did in Conner’s dark red BMW

human world, they

year, they buy the newest models

precious metal mines, so they either use their stock dividends

also use

Clint turns on the radio. “What music

him. “Ummm…I don’t know. I don’t have a

like, hit this

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

know them

huh? I imagined that you

the undead

think that