Hidden Flame: Bound to the Triplet Dragon Kings

**Avery**

After my non-date with Clint, I slept fairly well. I dreamed but I don’t remember them. I start my morning routine of

showering and getting dressed. I opt for a casual knit dress and my comfortable sneakers. I make my way to the kitchen

and the Trio is standing there waiting.

“We waited for you,” Clint says.

I am not surprised after yesterday. These guys might be gods on the football field but they are rabble in the kitchen. I

decided to teach them how to make omelets. They are fairly simple and the guys can stuff them with whatever

ingredients they want. While I am doing the eggs, I have them chopping their fixings. I grab spinach for mine and toss it

to Clint to wash and chop. I have them crowd around me so that I can show them how to add the egg and when it is

ready for the ingredients and to be flipped. They watch me as if I were an expert surgeon.

Their positive attention was nice even if I felt a bit uncomfortable under their gazes. Cooking is one of my escapes and I

am very good at it. Maybe I will study culinary science when I go to college. After breakfast, we left for school. I started

walking until a black Jaguar pulled up beside me.

“Get in,” Cassius ordered as he pushed open the passenger door.

I roll my eyes because I doubt that the Hags will try something again. They showed me their claws and I lived. What are

they going to do now, call me names? It is not like I have not been called vile things before. I just hope that none of them

are the Trio’s mates because I would demand that I be relieved of my service. I would die before I serve them!

“If you do not get in, I will come and put you in,” Cassius says as I catch the red flakes in his tepid blue eyes.

“Asher, is that how you ask a lady?”

as his eyes twinkle a mix of red and blue. They almost turn

because I always tried to keep my head down, but facing

in,”

inside at my small victory. Once I was inside, he

101, never command your friends. Offer suggestions instead,

chuckles as he asks, “Friendship 101, huh? Just how

and now I guess you and your

have never seen

back when I was mentoring her, so we

me a change of

next week for dinner.

and place it in my lap, “You are

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chose me I guess. But he’s not that bad, Avery. The death of our

he is very irritable without his mate. It

chose you. Aren’t you born with

pulls over. “Some of us are born with our dragon and must share a

are easily broken whereas others cannot be. But for royal dragons it is

each other and then

separate from our dragon for a decent length of time, but eventually, we must come back together. It is

see a lone dragon as they usually die without a suitable

some sense. He started driving again after I nodded to his explanation. But

weren’t driving towards school. “This

grins, “You are

“Take me to school.”

us excused for the day. I asked if you wanted to hang out and that’s what we

“I can’t miss class.”

the full experience. You won’t

else. Happy reading!

“Nerd alert,” he teases.

to know one considering you just used

he continued to drive. I fiddled with his radio until I