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."

at him. "By

been talking to

handmaiden

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could not ask for someone

more. Is Maya... related to you

smirked. "You have sharp

cousin."

why isn't she a lady instead of

he said. "Her mother

hummed. "I'd been banking on her being your father's

them soon

his deal? First, he's hitting on me, then he's insulting me." I glanced over at him,

such behaviors run in the family." He sounded amused. "To be fair, you are

way I can keep you out of my

He smirked..

others read

upon a time, but not since his scales lost

darkness."

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

son of my father's first consort. 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

- nower:

to the risk

her from becoming pregnant, but she was bribed by a concubine and later dismissed. My father

would cause the destruction of a room during birth, but glad to hear I won't be expected

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He went still.

no desire for

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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

..

never had a desire to marry

scowled at him. "Get

"I cannot."

shook my head. "It hardly matters

His eyes were

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

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