The Dragon King's Substitute Bride

Chapter 63

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Ari

Fury raged in me. Tsuneo had the mudacity to put me on the spot like that? It didn't matter that Kai was not his child, he should for him! We had been in love before that human showed up.

I still take responsibility

"How could you ask that?" I asked, glaring at him. "You're just saying that because of that human wench! We were intimate before your so-called coma. You may not remember it, but I do! This child carries your blood, Tsunco. It is undeniable."

I Tsuneo looked outright relieved, and it burned me. Tsuneo's injuries had made it impossible to do much of anything. Even if I had wanted to, there had never been any time to do so. He'd been covered in bandages from head to toe. It had only been after Kai was born that he had looked like his old self, and by then, Dr. Shang had placed guards on his room at all hours.

The Elders exchanged uneasy glances. I could see the doubt in their eyes, a challenge I was prepared to meet.

He didn't have to be Tsuneo's child. He just had to be related to him on his father's side, and he was.

"You want to keep denying, keep pretending like you don't remember? Fine. Let's have a lineage test, I demanded, my voice steady despite the turmoil within. "Let the truth be revealed, but when it is proven, I demand what is rightfully mine. You will marry me." "A lineage test it will be then," he turned, and I set my jaw,

He didn't even look worried or shaken about it. Did he really think I would have started this if I wasn't certain?

I looked at the king. "Are you really going to wait until morning to get to the bottom of this?"

"Yes," he said calmly. The child has had much excitement tonight. It would be best to allow him an evening of peace."

"Well, I don't feel like staying, I-

Guards," the king said, walking away from me. "Have her confined to her rooms until tomorrow morning"

w either arms.

They swarmed, grabbing me by

against them "He is my sons! I

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became the son of the crown prince," the king said coldly. "You are neither married nor courting Tsuneo, Arl Be silent and reflec your actions

me out. The last thing I saw was Tsuneo heading toward where that human woman and my

all these people. I should be wearing the crown. It should have always been me. I had endured so much, sacrificed so much, for

Tsuneo

headed to join Morgan, but

with me," he said. "We need to speak for

to the garden. I needed air, a moment to collect

into the moonlight. The cool

nothing. It's almost as if by solving one issue,

I nodded

you have never been intimate with

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"Not

I

great number of things will change?" he said, his voice low and measured. They'll say Lady Morgan must be returned to her realm. That her presence here is no

skin crawled. The dragon in me wanted to rip through and roar, to demand the truth out of Ari, to murder the Elders for the threat, but I could not. The weight

had only ever been a little sister to me when she was at her best. By the time I regained consciousness, her visits had been shorter, monitored to

respect... it was their and your decision to bring her here... Even if he is of the lineage,

am not worried about that. I only wanted to prime you so

handle

just as you do, perhaps more. As I recall, her ancestor was quite crafty...

the wistful smile on his

it will be nice to have a child's laughter around again... you and your brothers and sisters

at that. "You always

you're calm enough now to rejoin the

I nodded.

go back inside. We headed back in, and I slowly weaved my way toward where Morgan and the child had

one for manipulation. The child was definitely hers, but her endgame was still strange