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 the

smirked. "You've been talking to

handmaiden or

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could not ask for someone

been thinking about it... more and more. Is Maya... related to you in some

have sharp instincts. Technically,

cousin."

isn't she a

he said. "Her mother and mine were

on her

"You'll meet them soon

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

think such behaviors run in the family." He sounded amused.

a way I can

smirked.. "And it's the least

others read my

once upon a time, but not

darkness."

my head. "That have something to

of me being chosen as the next heir. I am sure that Maya

- nower:

to the risk

bribed by a concubine and later dismissed. My father

what would cause the destruction

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He went still.

have no desire for

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succeed me or choose someone to do so, and if I

..

had a desire to

at him. "Get

"I cannot."

my head. "It hardly matters

His eyes were

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 lips and

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