Chapter 15

The Dragon King's Substitute Bride

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Morgan

Worry clawed at me. "Isn't it pretty usual for people to leave instructions for their successors?"

He nodded. "In the case of the queen, your instructions are in two parts. One is the journals, but the part you are looking for is held in the Trial itself."

I scowled at him. "I'm just supposed to know because I didn't die?"

His lips twitched. "Because you were chosen by the heavens and blessed by the Phoenix."

I cocked an eyebrow. "Mystic words that mean nothing to me other than seeming important."

He tapped a journal. "Perhaps reading will educate you, then."

I met his gaze. "How can you be so sure?"

He sat on the edge of the desk and looked out the window with a wistfulness in his eyes.

"Because I knew my mother, and she told me many stories about how she came to settle in her power as queen."

I looked down at the journals. "Will you tell me about her?".

"What do you want to know?"

I considered it, trailing my fingers over the cover of the journal in front of me.

"Was she happy with your father?"

"She said she was."

"You didn't believe her?"

her

"I believe that happiness in tion was complicated," he said. "She stirred a lot of

controversy."

him. "By having

smirked. "You've been talking to

handmaiden or

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ask for

about it... more and more. Is Maya... related to you

have sharp

cousin."

I blinked. "And why isn't she a lady instead

choice," he said. "Her mother and mine were

on her being your father's

meet them soon enough,

insulting me." I glanced over at him, holding back

the family." He sounded amused. "To be fair, you are

there a way I can keep you out of

you?" He smirked.. "And

read

upon a time, but not since his

darkness."

"That have something to do with his

He is younger than me and resentful of me being chosen as the next heir. I am sure that Maya told you that it's rare for the queen to birth

- nower:

due to the risk

to keep her from becoming pregnant, but she was bribed by a concubine and later dismissed. My father says that my mother didn't show a moment of fear until the

cause the destruction of a room during birth, but glad to

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He went still.

have no desire

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it. I was a woman and Their to the family. It was expected that either I'd have a child to succeed me or choose someone to do so, and if I married, he would essentially be head of the family. I remember telling my father that

..

never had a desire

at him. "Get out of my

"I cannot."

"It hardly matters

His eyes were

His hands shook, suspended in the air between us as if he

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