The Dragon King's Substitute Bride

Chapter 69

CH69 Morgan

I turned away. Praying myself from his hand over my eyes. my face was heated, but heat pooled in my stomach.

"Tell me why it matters so much that you're not a golden dragon. Maybe you won't be the most benevolent ruler, but you certainly won't let anything happen to them."

He sighed. "The elders and the subjects know that I would defend them with my life. But they wouldn't be certain that I could rule them."

"You're dancing around it. What's the problem?"

He sighed. "Is it typical for humans to be so straightforward?"

"No, but I don't have much time to waste. We have a court appearance to make in the morning, and I'd like to be rested for it. I want to have breakfast with Kai, and not have to drown myself in tea. You may wake up and look like you've slept in a pool of holy moonlight for cons and be completely well-rested after only a few minutes of sleep, but I, being human, will have bags under my eyes and be completely useless."

He laughed. "What in the name of the dawn is holy moonlight?"

"It's just a saying. Don't worry about it. And I'm serious. If we're going to go face Ari and the Elders, who clearly have designs against you,' I need to know why. Kai deserves the best defense we can give him, so we're both going to have to be on our game. Out with it, Tsuneo."

"What happened to not having to talk about it if I didn't want to?"

"You're not saying you don't want to." I paused and namowed my eyes. "Unless you're saying you don't want to."

He smiled and kissed my nose. "I want to."

He lay back down and pulled me down on top of him.

"Golden dragons are always meant to have more than one child. While Golden Dragons tend to have multiple colors of children. Only a golden dragon can give birth to a black dragon... Black Dragons cannot have children."

a government mandate or a

is an instinct. It is not something that has been recorded anywhere. It is just something that I know, like a memory that has come to me from my previous one. I have always known that I wouldn't

is a thing?? I'd have to ask about that

think your

would take no matter of time to figure it out. He scoffed.

can only have a black dragon. They wouldn't want another one of those anyway.

a void from which everything

difference."

me. No one would have ever said that to me. No one

mind. There's no one, but

have only ever

are

assume

We don't speak much.

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not the best. The Cousins whose place I took to come here, actually still hates

you wish to press charges of treason on her and her family,

so bloodthirsty." I

who actually deserves it... Do you think his father could be reached? I'm pretty sure no man would like his son to be claimed by another man, right? Do you all have a concept of lineage here? Outside of nobility,

things Kai said about how he grew up while not very informative, were informative enough, don't think he grew up inside the capital or even the central territories. At least

you think Ari would just outright lie? About his lineage, she has to be hanking on that lineage

father brought that up. Honestly, so long as he is related to me through my father, the lineage test will say that he is of our lineage and- "Wait, the lineage test can't tell

says, if he's

a lineage

groaned. "You don't have a paternity test? Never mind. You clearly don't, because

shook my head.