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,

all froze when we heard a deep chuckle as one of the ravens shifted into a tall man

remember us, but we remember you.” As he said that the other

dark hair and the other was a curvaceous

are the Ravens from Blackbriar. They are the

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

hand. Have those who did this each take a coin and

toll.” He winks, “Quote

am Samael and that is Mara. We won’t

all. Draven go and give those females the coins. Their time

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

I couldn’t understand. Avery and Cassius’s body began to

Then a miracle happened!

**Avery**

me, but this time I am not alone. I cling

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

So she said that we would find love.” I put my

found so much

felt my mark on him pulse and heat up. I gasped when he touched

I stood up and patted my body.

he was still covered in blood. My hands flew to my back as I wrenched one blade

I stood up I noticed

from that church!”

hair fluttered in a non-existent breeze. He smiled as he bowed, he said, “I am Donn

tonight are Samael and Mara. We are

them to stand. “I am my mates’ Queen and Naga’s too. To

you are so much more.” He looks at my mates, “And they are too.