Hidden Flame: Bound to the Triplet Dragon Kings

Chapter 24: Starting Fresh Conner Since Avery nearly died, I have seen her differently. Her body might be frail but her spirit isn't. She keeps pushing forward no matter what has been done to her. She more than deserves the surprise in her locker that my brothers and I arranged. As I think back to how I have mistreated her, l/recall a quote from Pride and Prejudice I was given good principles, but left to follow them in pride and conceit," Mr. Darcy said in that book. I am just as guilty as he is and so are my brothers. We let our titles and pride keep us from knowing the real Avery. We judged her by her appearance, not her character. Maybe it is too late for a truly fresh start because of all of the damage that has been done, but that won't stopfrom trying.

Before the bell rings to signal us to go to our first-period classes, Hedi walks over towith a fake smile plastered on her face and a seductive glint in her eyes. She puts her hand on my arm and 1 fight the urge to slap it away. Pretending that we don't know what she and the other girls did might prove harder than I thought. “Meetunder the bleachers after school since there's no practice. I have something that I want to show you," she says. I only nod in response because I won't be meeting her. Instead, I will be taking Avery home.

Avery To my delight, my day sped by plus it was great not having to go to PE. I skipped lunch because I was still full from breakfast. When I get back to the palace, I will have a care basket sent to Momma June and Poppa Anton. They cared enough to cand check on me, so I will make sure their kindness doesn't go unrewarded. So far the Hags have kept their distance frombut I have felt their furious gazes when I traversed the halls. They must be pissed that I didn't die or get withdrawn from school because I was in a coma, a coma that they tried to cause. I have always continued forward even when I have tried to kill myself, fate intervened. I survived my parents' deaths, that dragon in the woods, my own feeble attempts at suicide, and this latest attack by the Hags. Fate wantsalive for a reason and I won't disappoint her again.

I entered Mr. Chen's class and he greeted me. He remarks on how well I look and attributes it tohaving a good weekend. I assthat only the headmaster knows what happened besides those that were involved. After I take my seat, Cassius comes in and sits besideat our lab station. Mr. Chen hands out the necessary items and encourages us to begin the first part of our study on genetics. We are going to use an equation involving our physical traits to craft what our offspring would look like. He wants both human and dragon offspring to be revealed during this experiment. I sigh and look down.

Cassius puts his finger under my chin. Our eyes meet as he says, “Use your imagination. What would you like your dragon to look like?" That is something that I have never thought about. Dragons have always frightenedsince I was attacked when I was six. If my dreams are any indication, dragons killed my parents. I have no reason to want a dragon, but The Tdid save me. I will try because I am alive because of them. "She would have blue eyes because I love blue eyes," I began to blush as his blue eyes twinkled atbefore a bit of red dotted them. "Her scales would be white, iridescent, and maybe accentuated with gold or silver." Cassius nodded as he put my information into the formula. Next, he added Asher's. Mr. Chen cover and congratulated us on creating a beautifully unique wormling. After he left, I asked Cassius, "Why did he have that look on his face?" Cassius suddenly loses his confidence. He's nervous. Why? He clears his throat, “Because we just made a true queen. We made the SuprMother." I blink rapidly. Based on what history I have learned, the SuprMother has been extinct for several millennia. She was the one who possessed the magic that was responsible for the ting bond. That can't be right." "You can givedifferent traits and we can see if it changes the results,” he suggests. I nodded because I didn't use any of the SuprMother's known traits. I simply told him what I liked in a dragon.

"Okay, try silver eyes on a sky-blue dragon.

Cassius chuckled, "I need to remember how much you like blue," as be put in the new information. However, we ended up with nearly the sthing. I took the first one and he took the second. He put his paper into his backpack and I carried mine out of the 1/2 Chapter 24: Starting Fresh

class, but I protectively put it into my book when I saw Jessica bounding Saw over with a paper in in her hand.

She spoke so loudly that I couldn't help but overheat, "Look at this. put you and Asher in as my mate. Look ΕΠ how adorable our babies are.

I pushed back the bile that roke into my mouth. Cassius said, "That's nice," as he started walking to his next class. Jessica trailed after him like a lost puppy \Skook my head and went to my next class. I sigh because I hope that he knows what he is doing. What if she turns out to be his mate? Can he punish her then? If by swisted chance, the Hags are the Trio's mates I will ask them to allowto graduate early so that I can leave. I am done being abused because I am a weak human girl. Chapter Comments