The Dragon King's Substitute Bride
Chapter 68
Chapter 67
CH67 Morgan
The hesitation in him gave me pause. I looked up and saw it all over his face and the way his dark opall eyes flickered. He was hiding something from me. Pushing him would get me nowhere, so I said nothing, just watching him struggle with it. He'd confide in me when he was ready. We had at least gotten that far in our relationship for me to know that for certain.
For now, I just leaned against him, enjoying the heat of the baths.
"Should we talk about something else?"
"I don't mean to hide things from you."
"I know" I sighed and closed my eyes.
A few moments of silence passed before 1 thought of something to say.
"Tell me a story," I said, my voice soft, the gentle lapping of the water providing a soothing backdrop.
Tsuneo chuckled, his voice warm. My heart skipped a beat.
"I know you are young, but I did not expect you to be that young."
I nudged him. "And how old are you?"
In your realm's years, or mine?"
....yours."
"Five and twenty."
I blinked at that. I didn't even want to know what the equivalent was. Hundreds? Thousands? I shook my head. This is probably not what one of my aunts meant by marrying an older man, but I doubt she would have complained.
"Well, you're at least older than I am, so tell me a story.
"What kind of story?" he asked.
"Anything," I replied. Something about your realm."
He hummed
the legend of the
shook my head. "Not a story that's
rose the first dragon, a creature of immense power and beauty. But with great power came great loneliness, and so the dragon yearned for a companion."
you overthink the stories, they cease to be enjoyable... don't you
I shrugged. "Go on.
been one for origin or
had my doubts about the stories, but these are the stories that I was told as a child, the things our records say. These and the versions I kamu" When wrote the
realm was a place
a place of fantasy.
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dragon, alone in a world of chaos, yearned for companionship. In answer to his plea, a phoenix was born, a creature of light and
at that, but I didn't say
dragon and phoenix
was filled with darkness, and there were those who sought to destroy their harmony. The dragon and phoenix
world." He paused.
also drew the line between the
felt a lump form in my throat. Images flashed through
a beautiful story,"
as though there is something
I have always felt the same. His eyes searched mine. As if the details didn't quite add up. As if
I smiled at him
as though I'm not the only one
we get out? The water will get
I nodded and let him help me out of the bath. We dressed for bed and headed towards our sleeping chambers A sense of peace washed over me when Tsuneo's arm wrapped around me, his body was a comforting presence in the darkness? I closed
shift, His fingers gently tracing patterns on
murmured, his
I replied, my voice barely a whisper. "But you're
could say
tell you if you
rumble went through him. I don't want you to
I cant misunderstand anything
He chuckled."true"
it, we don't have to talk about it. I
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