The Dragon King's Substitute Bride

Chapter 15

Chapter 15

The Dragon King's Substitute Bride

CH15

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."

up at him. "By having the king's

"You've been talking

handmaiden or

1/4

CH15

could not ask for

and more. Is Maya... related to

sharp instincts. Technically, she

cousin."

why isn't she a lady instead of

said. "Her mother and

"I'd been banking on her being

"You'll meet them soon

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

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

there a way I can keep you out of

would I tell you?" He smirked..

read

once upon a time, but

darkness."

"That have something to

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

- nower:

to the risk

"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 birth destroyed the whole birthing

think I want to know what would cause the destruction

2/4

CH15

He went still.

have no

www

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, he would essentially be head of the family. I remember telling

..

a desire to

"Get out

"I cannot."

shook my head. "It hardly matters now,

His eyes were

desire. His hands shook, suspended in the air between

The Novel will be updated daily. Come back and continue reading tomorrow, everyone!

Comments ()

0/255