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

me!" I screamed, struggling against them "He is my sons! I

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the son of the crown prince," the king said coldly. "You

the guards dragged me out. The last thing I saw was Tsuneo heading toward

front of all these people. I should be wearing the crown. It should have always been me. I had endured so much, sacrificed so much, for that moment. And now, it was within my grasp. She was going to pay for this, one

Tsuneo

headed to join Morgan, but my father

he said. "We need to speak

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

stepping into the moonlight. The cool

if by solving one issue, we have created

I nodded

nie certain that you have never been

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"Not

conscious," I grit

the lineage, a 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

demand the truth out of Ari, to murder the Elders for the threat, but I could not. The weight of the kingdom seemed to rest

me when she was at her best. By the time I regained consciousness, her

respect... it was their and your decision to bring her here... Even if he is of the lineage, that doesn't mean Ari has a

am not worried about that. I only wanted to

handle tomorrow when it's

Cunning, too. She likely sees through this just as

at him, noting the wistful smile on his

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

at that. "You

you're calm enough now to rejoin

I nodded.

inside. We headed back in, and I slowly

definitely hers,