Hidden Flame: Bound to the Triplet Dragon Kings

**Avery**

I offered Cassius a quick smile before I turned back to a stunned Draven. “Come!” I commanded. Robotically he walked to

us as we were standing beside Cassius’s car. I wonder why I have this effect on him. Regina spoke in my mind, “I think

one of our tribe members is in him. But I will say that using my big girl voice feels really good.” I giggle inside because it

does feel good to not cower. In fact, it feels damn good.

In addition to my newfound confidence, I feel something else, this dark fire that begins to spark and burn. As the heat

rises so does my anger. My mates surround Draven, preventing his escape. Could he use magic? Yes, but that requires

chanting and his coven based on the ritual I had witnessed. “You took something you had no right to,” I growled.

“What are you talking about? Who are you people?” Draven asks.

Cassius takes a step closer to Draven. His glare intensifies, “You know exactly who we are.” His head turned to me before

he looked back to Draven, “Now meet our queen.”

To pull him close to me, I reached for Draven but in doing so I caught a whiff of some familiar scents. At first, I thought

that it was just perfume so I took another whiff. My nose crinkled as I spat, “The Hoity Hags! He reeks of them.”

To my surprise, Conner grabbed Draven by his throat and lifted him in the air. “Tell us what you had those bitches do and

may not eat you.” My, oh my! It appears that my Mr. Darcy has quite a temper

love, desire, and pride, I rise up to my tiptoes and kiss his cheek. Then

while I

ground. Before he could stand, I walked

He cringed under my

hand gripping Draven’s shoulder, my nails turned

with her iridescent

my hand and looked into my eyes. “You’re…you’re

am The Mother!” as I exclaimed my title, I used my human hand to yank his head back by

expelling a purplish-blue flame into Draven’s now gaping mouth. The dragon that was inside

before it bowed. When that dragon looked into my eyes, I felt a connection. I had met

When?

golden scales under his black ones stood. I couldn’t hear

was such an odd sensation as if part of me recognized itself, but

him. Perhaps the connection exists from another life. He looked up at the

knew that he was asking to return to his plane of waiting. He wants his

and say, “Go Adrik until we

to ponder that because

finger on my free hand and turned

or die now,” I say as I run the talon on

perhaps outright defy me, but his pupils dilated as he felt his blood begin to leak down his cheek. He puts his palms on his thighs and

I walked the boundary a lot.

the boundary of your territory. While there trying to