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.

stood and stripped off all of my clothes. After turning on all of my lights, I grabbed a hand mirror and walked

where I proceeded to look over every inch of my body.

but they looked different. Yes, there was still a dragon’s clawed handprint on my back but instead of

pattern…a dragon’s mark. Maybe my nightmares of that day in

it marked me. But why? I was a

have looked everywhere except between my legs. I sit on

inside of my upper right thigh

the mirror and it shattered into a million pieces

am not alone

he rushes to me

shards as I grab

Asher took a hand towel from my rack and gave it to

that it covered his eyes. “Avery, let me help. I won’t look, I

carried me to my bed. I suddenly remembered how I must have been

me. But it wasn’t Cassius who

in allowing

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

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are protruding from my body. It hurts, but I am used to pain.

the fuck out or close your fucking eyes,” he yells

covered. Conner

need you to guide my hands over where they were once more,” he said as

as he asked. “Now,

I saw. “Avery, we need to see

you, don’t make me regret it.” Without hesitation, they all nodded and fell to their knees at the foot of my bed. I