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.

been talking

handmaiden

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could not ask

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

smirked. "You have sharp

cousin."

she

choice," he said. "Her mother and mine

on

chuckled. "You'll meet them soon enough,

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

behaviors run in the family." He sounded amused.

I can keep

He smirked.. "And it's the

read

upon a time,

darkness."

my head. "That have something to

me and resentful of me being chosen as the next heir. I am

- nower:

due to the

Having a dragon child is a hard undertaking." Tsuneo paused. "Her handmaiden was meant to be ensuring she was taking the potions necessary 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 day of my birth, My

the destruction of

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He went still.

no desire for

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a child to succeed me or choose someone to do so, and if I married, he would essentially be

..

never had a desire

him. "Get

"I cannot."

my head. "It hardly matters

His eyes were

with desire. His hands shook, suspended in the air between

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