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

that my Mr. Darcy has quite a temper

my tiptoes and kiss

“Let him speak while I decide

the ground. Before he could stand, I walked over to him and

He cringed under my grasp,

shoulder, my nails turned into her gold

iridescent and blue

saw my hand and looked into my eyes.

I used my human hand to yank his head back by pulling on his hair. My

into Draven’s now gaping mouth. The dragon that

my eyes, I felt a connection. I had met it

When?

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

I felt his presence in my mind and soul. It was such an odd sensation as if part of me

him. Perhaps the connection exists from another life. He

me. I just knew that he was asking to return to his plane of waiting.

I nod and say, “Go

don’t have time to ponder that because Draven’s

anything, did he have them do? I brought up the finger on my free hand and turned it

I run the talon on Draven’s cheek causing

he felt his blood begin to leak down his cheek. He puts his palms on his thighs and bows his head before he looks up at me. “I wanted my mate

A dragon that I could control, so I walked the boundary a

your territory. While there trying