Hidden Flame: Bound to the Triplet Dragon Kings

**Avery**

This is insane. All of this is insane. I locked my door and rested my back against it. I could hear The Trio quietly talking in

the hallway on the other side of my door, but I couldn’t make out what. They were happy and excited no matter what

they were discussing. They all want me to forgive them but Cassius. He wants to prove himself. Should I let him?

Not thinking, I throw open my door. “What am I to you?” In unison, they said, “Mate.” I abruptly slammed and locked my

door before I pressed my forehead to it. Mate? How? Oh, fucking god! I pulled out all of the historical books in my room

and some of my romance books too because some truth always lies in fiction if you are willing to read between the lines.

In my human history book, there is a section on mythology. In Babylonian myths, Tiamat was the goddess of all dragons

and she was believed to bring chaos and violence as well as create monsters. What if she didn’t bring those things but was created from them? Next, I found an example in Chinese culture. There was a woman named Longmu. She and those

dragons that she bonded to are believed to have created devotion and parental love. I wonder if she is the one

responsible for the mating bond. I picked up a romance book called The Flame. I rented it by accident because it is about

dragons.

Shakily, I began to turn the pages and read. In this fictional book, the female lead never knew who her parents were. She

was found as an infant near death along the shore of a frozen river by an elderly dragon woman. She raised the girl as

her own. The girl had a strange mark on her right hip. It turned out that the mark was from a royal lineage of dragons

dating back to their creation.

and stripped off all of my clothes. After turning on all of my lights,

every inch of my body. None of my scars remained except for

there was still a dragon’s clawed handprint on my

nightmares of that day in the forest when

attack me, instead, it marked me. But why? I was

except between my legs. I sit on my toilet seat and slowly

Next, I lower the mirror. On the inside of my upper right thigh is an iridescent triquetra with

screamed as I dropped the mirror and it shattered into a million pieces

not alone

hurt?” Cassius asks as he rushes to

stumble off of the toilet, falling onto the shards as I grab the shower curtain

something but Asher stopped him. Asher took a

his eyes. “Avery, let me help. I won’t

agreed. He scooped me up and carried me to my bed. I

Lenore and the other Hags tried to kill me. But it wasn’t Cassius who carried me, if I

Clint. I am taking a huge leap of faith in allowing myself to

along the way to my bed. He gently laid me down as he said, “Guide

the shards. Before you tell me that you can

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shards are protruding from

others come in. “Either get the fuck out or close your fucking eyes,” he yells

see them leave but return with their eyes covered.

you to guide my hands over where they

as he

saw. “Avery, we need to see it,” they all said

you, don’t make me regret it.” Without hesitation, they