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.

"You've been talking

my handmaiden or

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ask

and more. Is

sharp instincts. Technically, she is

cousin."

blinked. "And why isn't she a

choice," he said. "Her

"I'd been banking on her being your

chuckled. "You'll meet them

he's hitting on me, then he's insulting me." I glanced over at him, holding back the words that I wanted to

such behaviors run in the family." He sounded amused. "To be fair, you are not

I can keep you out of

He smirked.. "And it's

others read my

able to once upon a

darkness."

have something to do with his

the 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

- nower:

due to the risk

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

thought. "I don't think I want to know what would cause the destruction of a room during birth,

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He went still.

no

www

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

..

a desire to marry

scowled at him. "Get out of

"I cannot."

my head. "It hardly

His eyes were

startled by the sound. blazing with desire. His hands shook, suspended in the air between us as if he wanted to touch me. Did he? He licked his

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