Hidden Flame: Bound to the Triplet Dragon Kings

Clint**

This place is incredibly creepy. It is haunted and in my opinion the whole complex needs bulldozed and the area

cleansed. I have seen so many unfortunate things befall humans and supernaturals alike. I am convinced that this place

could convert the strongest non-believer. Why in the fuck would Tim want to meet here? Is that fucker a warlock? After what all we both saw and heard the day we proposed to Avery, I want to imprison and interrogate any magic user. I trust

no one other than Avery, my brothers, and now Draven.

The further into the place we walk, the more uneasy I feel. Then I caught Lenore’s scent. That bitch is behind Avery’s

disappearance and if she hurt one hair on Avery’s head, I will rip her heart out myself! I rushed ahead with my brother

and Draven calling after me. I entered a room to find a bloody and unconscious Tim who was both bound and gagged.

He was alive, so I focused on finding my mate and my brother. As I was about to enter an eerie stairwell, they caught up

to me. We all covered our noses because all we could smell was sulfur, death, and decay.

I fell to my knees when I saw my brother dead in a pool of blood with Avery lying on top of him with two blades sticking

out of her back. “We have to help them,” Draven tried.

I looked up at him with tears streaming down my face and Conner weeping beside me. “We can’t. They’re dead. Our mate and our brother are dead.”

At that moment three ravens flew in and landed on the railing near the bodies. I stood up to swat them away, but Draven

stopped me. “They are here for three souls, not two,” he said.

“They can take me then.”

stood up beside me and said,

deep chuckle as one of the ravens

we remember you.” As he said that the other two ravens shifted into

was a muscular man with long dark hair and the other was a

these are the Ravens from Blackbriar. They are the Reapers that we

“Yes, and we owe you all our freedom.” He looked at the coins Draven was clutching in his

this each take a coin and make a wish. Death

its toll.” He winks, “Quote the

one says, “Donn is right. I am Samael and that is Mara. We won’t ever take

go and give those females the coins.

takes my hand and my brother’s. The two men each put a hand on Avery and Cassius. Mara

circle. Donn muttered something that I couldn’t understand. Avery and Cassius’s body began

Then a miracle happened!

**Avery**

killed me, but this time I am not alone. I cling to Cassius as

this. I look up at him and kiss him before I say, “That fortune teller was

I am a Queen. So she said that we would

have found so much

when he touched

void. I stood up and patted my body. My dress was

patted Cassius down and his stab wounds were gone but he was still covered in blood. My hands flew to my back as I wrenched one blade

As I stood up I noticed who all was around

from that church!”

fluttered in a non-existent breeze. He

Mara. We are

rushed over to them and told them to stand. “I am my mates’ Queen and Naga’s too.

you are so much more.” He looks at