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."

looked up at him. "By having

smirked. "You've been

handmaiden

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ask for someone

about it... more and more. Is Maya... related to you in

have sharp

cousin."

blinked. "And why isn't she

choice," he said. "Her mother and

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

them

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

He sounded

way I can keep you out of my

you?" He smirked.. "And it's the least of

read my

once upon a time, but not since

darkness."

have something to do with

me and resentful of me being chosen as the next heir. I am sure that Maya told you that it's rare for the queen to birth a child."

- nower:

to the

be ensuring she was taking the potions necessary to keep her from becoming pregnant, but she was bribed by a concubine and

I want to know what would cause the destruction of a room during birth, but glad to hear I

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He went still.

no

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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 choose someone to do so, and if I married,

..

had a desire to

scowled at him. "Get

"I cannot."

my head. "It hardly

His eyes were

up, startled by the sound. blazing with desire. His hands shook, suspended in the air between us as if

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