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

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

that…umm…Clint is taking me to

saw hurt fill his eyes before he shrugged and walked

because if it does, the only loser will be me. At

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

I made sure that she couldn’t see me, I got

blue sports

blue, but I feel so out of place. I did in

When dragons venture into the human world, they only return with the

Every year, they buy the newest

use their stock

also use

we are driving, Clint turns on the radio. “What music do you like?”

stare at him. “Ummm…I don’t know.

you like, hit this button,” he says

that I have ever spent time around them. I know everything about

know them

I imagined that you

the undead doesn’t

think that