Bound to the Triplet Alphas

JAXON POV

A little girl had wandered into the exercise yard. She was standing right in the line of the spreading fire, frozen with fear. Without thinking, I ran toward her, but the dragon inside me roared to life.

ɪꜰ ʏᴏᴜ ᴡᴀɴᴛ ᴛᴏ ʀᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴏʀᴇ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs, ᴘʟᴇᴀsᴇ ᴠɪsɪᴛ ɴoᴠel Fɪre.nᴇt

Let it burn, a voice whispered in my head. Fire is beautiful. Fire is power.

"Shut up!" I yelled at the voice, but my body temperature spiked. The air around me shimmered with heat.

I reached the girl just as the flames were about to touch her. I scooped her up and rolled away, but I could feel my skin burning hot. Too hot.

The girl screamed again. Not from the fire—from me. I was burning her.

I dropped her quickly and backed away, watching helplessly as she ran screaming to her mother. The woman took one look at me and pulled her daughter behind her.

"Stay away from us!" she yelled. "Monster!"

The word hit me like a punch to the gut. Monster. That’s what I was becoming.

I closed my eyes and tried to calm down. The dragon voice in my head laughed.

You cannot fight what you are, it said. Stop trying to be weak. Embrace the fire.