Hidden Flame: Bound to the Triplet Dragon Kings

**Draven**

| think we managed to avoid the worst, but not without a price. Avery took in a good amount of darkness as did

Cassius.

It could shift things as powers emerge. | know how tempting the power of darkness is. Its seductive nature

becomes

addicting as you chase that high again and again. Now that | am free from the dark stranglehold that Blackbriar

once had

over me, | want to keep my new family from ever experiencing it. | will stay close to all of them, including Trisha

now.

Tim hid the fact that he was a dragon. Unlike Avery, he purposely kept his hidden. Why? He had to have known

that the

Draco triplets were dragons and that they would only consort with other dragons. Did he think that they would

breach

the treaty and claim a human? If that is his reasoning, then | fear that Talos has been compromised too.

**AVeryr*

It has now been a few months since prom. Noone misses the Hags and the few others that met their ends. We

have all

fallen into a normal routine too. Draven no longer needs to pretend to be someone else. We formally announced

him as

new staff at the palace. My mates want to hire more kitchen staff too because they think | cook too much, but |

love it so

| keep telling them not to add any.

Since | now have a huge family, | want us to have a big dinner for Thanksgiving. My adopted parents will be

coming too. |

am so excited and have been cooking for days now too. | want it to be as close to perfection as it can be! |

remember a

quote from Henery Ward Beecher that said, “Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.” This

meal is

how I plan to show my gratitude to those that I love.

| have my timers set so | decide to have stea and sit down at the kitchen island. | must have dozed off

because | was

pulled into a dream...

**Dream**

I am humming as | cook in the kitchen. It has all of the elements of a Thanksgiving meal. | have always wanted a

family

and now | have a great one, but something is still missing. | wish that | knew what, but I must have faith that all

will be

revealed in due time.

“Little mate, we should have let the kitchen staff do this,” Cassius said, as he turned to me, covered in flour.

| laughed. “You look like the abominable snowman.”

He roared, “I am a beast, alright,” as he grabbedand kissedpassionately.

I smacked him on his shoulder, “Careful or you will squish our baby.”

He kissedagain before he satdown and placed his hands on my belly. “Avery, nothing will ever hurt him.”

“Him?” | had thought that our baby might be a girl, because for sreason | couldn't discern the gender. Even

my

visions have failedlately.

Cassius nods, “Just a gut feeling, but we will know soon.” He is right, because we will. The rest of The Tmade

their way

into the kitchen and teased Cassius before they each kissed my belly and me. Their babies also reside in my

womb. Even

though | am not very far along, | already resemble a beached whale.

We all worked together and made a huge Thanksgiving dinner. As we were about to say what we were thankful

for, | was

pulled into a vision. | saw that beautiful island that | had dreamt about before. However, this tthere were

people who

| didn’t know waving at me. One had eyes shaped like mine but were the bluest blue and he stood beside a

handsome

older man that had these piercing green eyes. | felt myself being pulled closer and | froze when his eyes flashed

silver.

The guy whose eyes were like mine said, “Avery, there is no room for fear. We all love you. Chome. Come

hto

Altima.”

When | cout of my vision, my mates were stroking my hair and kissing me. | smiled. “Guys, | am alright. Our

family

awaits us on Altima.” | looked up at the ceiling. “Thank you, Mom and Dad, and thank you, Goddess. | am

thankful for

you, my mates, and the rest of my family. Happy Thanksgiving, | love you all.”

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**End Dream**

| woke up to my mates kissing me. “You must have just had an amazing dream,” Conner says.

Clint chuckles, “It was slightly arousing too,” as his fingers brush against my erect nipples.

| blushed before | looked them all in the eyes. “I think it was not just a dream but part of a vision too.” Then |

proceeded

to tell them about my vision. Cassius used his phone to pull up an image of James Balans, The King Of Kings. |

gasped

when | saw those green eyes from my dream staring back atas if they could see right through me. | felt that

pull and

leaned forward. “He is the guy beside the blue-eyed man. He is also the dragon that markedwhen | was a

little girl.”

Cassius nods, “We will have that meeting soon enough and he owes all of us sanswers. If for sreason

he is your mate too, we will support you. Let's enjoy our Thanksgiving dinner and then we can start making our

eggs.”

My cheeks reddened as | bit my lip. | gave each of them a quick kiss as my timers started going off. “Wash your

hands

and get your aprons on and chelp me,” | said as | looked over my shoulder and sauntered to the ovens.

They

laughed as they helpedfinish making our dinner before we got changed and our guests arrived. | kept

thinking back

to my dream. Will | be with eggs by this tnext year or could | already be? Or perhaps, that was just a dream

and the

only real parts of it were the blue-eyed man and James as well as Altima? Cassius is right because we are

definitely owed

sanswers and soon we will get them!

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