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.

smirked. "You've been

my handmaiden or

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could not ask for

it... more and more. Is Maya...

smirked. "You have sharp

cousin."

isn't she a lady instead of

said. "Her

on

them soon enough,

then he's insulting me." I glanced over at him, holding back the words

He sounded amused. "To be fair, you are

a way I can

would I tell you?" He smirked.. "And it's

read my

been able to once upon a time, but not since

darkness."

shook my head. "That have something to do with his

"You asked about Keiji. He is the son of my father's first consort. He is younger than me and resentful of me being chosen as the next

- nower:

due to the

the potions necessary to keep her from becoming pregnant, but she was bribed by a

know what would cause the destruction of a room during birth, but glad

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He went still.

have no desire for

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back, wondering what answer to give him. I hadn't ever thought about it. I was a woman and Their to the family. It was expected that either I'd have a child to succeed me or

..

never had a desire to marry

"Get out

"I cannot."

my head. "It hardly matters now,

His eyes were

shook, suspended in the air between us as if he wanted to touch me. Did he? He licked

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