The Dragon King's Substitute Bride

Chapter 15

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."

up at him. "By having the king's

smirked. "You've been talking

my handmaiden or

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not ask for someone

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

smirked. "You have sharp instincts. Technically, she

cousin."

I blinked. "And why isn't she a

said. "Her

"I'd been banking on her being your

meet them soon

insulting me." I glanced over at him, holding back the words that I wanted to

behaviors run in the family." He

I can keep you out

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

read my

father might have been able to once upon a time, but not since

darkness."

have something to do with

of me being chosen as the next heir. I am sure that Maya told you that it's

- nower:

due to the

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

don't think I want to know what would cause the destruction of a room

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He went still.

have no desire

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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 my father that I'd pass the successorship to Hiro when I wanted to

..

had a desire to marry

him. "Get out of

"I cannot."

my head. "It hardly matters

His eyes were

the sound. blazing with desire. His hands shook, suspended in the air between us as if he wanted to touch me.

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