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 first dragon

shook my head. "Not a story that's made it all these years. Tell

the first dragon, a creature of immense power and beauty. But

the stories, they

I shrugged. "Go on.

or creation myths. It always seemed

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

realm was a place

a place of fantasy.

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in a world of chaos, yearned for companionship. In

at that, but

dragon and phoenix

was filled with darkness, and there were those who sought to destroy their harmony. The dragon and phoenix fought valiantly and became rulers of the realm. Within the chaos, all the creatures Blocked to them and together they built

world." He paused.

is said that the Phoenix also drew the line between the human and the supernatural

form in my throat. Images flashed through my

beautiful

as though there is

searched mine. As if the details didn't quite add up.

I smiled at him

as though I'm not the only one who's overthinking

we get out?

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

shift, His fingers gently tracing patterns

his voice low and

"I am." I replied, my voice barely

could say the same of

"I'll tell you if you tell me

rumble went through him. I

cant misunderstand anything

He chuckled."true"

talk about it. I know you're hiding something from me and it clearly distresses you... I had just hoped to make you

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