Hidden Flame: Bound to the Triplet Dragon Kings

| felt a new power course through me, so | allowed it control. | am glad that | trusted it because it looks like Mara

will find

a mate. Based on her surprised expression, Ravens aren’t born but created so they don’t ever have a mate. |

don’t

understand how this is possible, but then again | don’t understand how anything in my life is possible. | have

multiple mates, a unique dragon, performed magic when | summoned a mirror, and | just killed Heidi. | wonder if

1 will ever

understand.

After summoning their coins from Jessica and Lenore, Samael and Donn both approached me. “They each made

a wish,

but those wishes are quite similar so you might want to toss both coins into the fountain,” Donn says.

Why not? They both killedtogether so they might as well suffer and die together too. | toss both coins into

the

fountain and as all of their memories are on display for all to see, Donn and Samael toldwhat their wishes

were. A

sadistic smirk dawned my lips as | felt that power rise. “You both wished for power and to be Queen not so that

you

could better the kingdom but so you could bully those under you. Jessica, you once toldthat | need to learn

my

place. Well prepare to meet yours!” | spat and turned to Lenore, “You, Lenore, toldto never touch what was

yours.

You never had a right to claim Clint, so now you will know what it feels like to be claimed!”

**Jessica**

Who fucking gave Avery the right to decide fate? Ravens were extinct, because Corra said so. She promised that

if we

secured Naga and two other tribes that she would kill any who challenged our rule. Avery was a threat to that

rule and

why she made sure that potion would kill any dragon. But Avery and Cassius didn’t die; instead, flanked by

Ravens, they

stand beforevery much in love and very much alive. Fuck you, Corra! You are a lying bitch!

“Don’t just see, feel,” Avery sneered. After she said that, | saw myself in the human world holding the hand of a

man. As we crossed a street, a car cout of nowhere and struck us. | felt my bones break. As | gasped for air,

| reached toward

the bloody man beside me. Cassius stepped out of the car. He squatted down and said, “Payback for trying to

take my mate from me. Now | will take yours!” | watched helplessly as he broke the man’s neck. | saw a tiny

dragon emerge

before Cassius lifted up his foot and squashed my mate like a bug. Tears streamed down my cheeks as | watched

Cassius

drive away.

My heart was breaking at the loss of what could have been. | could have had a mate and a future had | not been

so

stupid to believe that Corra could giveit all. | should have trusted The Goddess and her design and not some

demonic bitch! The vision shifted to showalone living under a bridge. | was old and filthy. Any beauty that |

once had was replaced by grotesque rotten teeth, rat-infested hair, and rags for clothing. My skin was covered in

moles and

wrinkles. | looked like a bag out of Grimm's Fairytales. | screamed as pain sourced through me. My bones began

to break

and protrude through my skin. My dragon was dying and soon | would too.

**Cassius**

Asher puffed contentedly inside ofas we watched Jessica's fate. | gave Avery a kiss from both of us as | saw

myself in

that vision. It is true that | would defy any rule for Avery. Had the Hags not just killed us earlier tonight, | would

have

eventually made them all pay for that night of the football gwhere they strung my little mate up like a lamb

ready

for slaughter.

Lamb? | chuckle at referring Avery to that because she might still be sexually inexperienced but she is no lamb

inside or

outside of the bedroom. If anything, my cunning mate is a wolf in sheep's clothing. Everyone overlooked and

underestimated her...everyone but Draven who is looking on with admiration and gratitude.

We all should look at Avery as Draven does after tonight. However, my brothers and | can look upon her in a

different

light. We are fortunate enough to be her mates and her future husbands. However, Tim telling us about his

cousin worries me. Yes, we have already marked and bonded with Avery, but what happens if he is able to

challenge my brothers

and me? Worse yet, what happens if he wins?

As we listen to Jessica beg to be sparred, Avery exits my embrace and wraps her arms around Clint. She gives

him a kiss

on the cheek. “Lenore, you were perhaps even worse than Heidi and Jessica. You tried everything you could to

make a man be yours that never could be. Now you will both see and feel what that choice would have gotten

you.”

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*Meanwhile in Talos*

F*|lames**

| had been in meetings with other tribes all day when | should have been out trying to track my mate. Tim

constantly

avoided sduties as Beta, but he rarely avoided important meetings as these, so | was surprised to find him

absent. | was even more surprised when my dragon, Typhon, alertedthat Tim's dragon was in danger. Had

his dragon not

called for help, we would have never noticed that he was in Naga.

Ty tried to give sof our life force to heal him, but we felt him slipping away. As we were prepared to mourn

the loss

of our own, my mate and her dragon walked up. Ever since Ty lost track of our mate five years ago, | have made

sure that

my consciousness traveled with him because | don’t want to risk missing any clues that could lead us to our

mate. Avery

and her dragon healed Tim’s dragon as Ty and | made sure to be able to track her from now on. We gifted them a

bit of

our life force for a couple of reasons. One, it ensured that we could track her. But more importantly because she

needed

the boost. Once Tim's dragon was healed, we shot our flinto the air signally that one of our own has been

reborn. Now all dragons will soon know that the King Of Kings found his Queen! After Tim hung up, | rushed out

of my office

and began to ready the kingdom for her arrival.

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