The Dragon King's Substitute Bride

Chapter 89

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Tsunco

Morgan....

She wasn't born of water, but what did I know about her human rebirth?

I heard a young woman scream and turned my attention back to the vision I was getting.

Ari was the girl's name. She looked young in the vision, yet I knew from Tsuneo's memories that she looked no different now, and she wasn't that young in the vision. I got a flicker of irritation that died out as the rest of the vision came to me. Ari sneered cruelly down at a younger woman. Her hand was raised high, and then she struck the girl hard across the face. Anya's s eyes were filled with fear. She scrambled to get away, but Ari grabbed her by her hair and pulled her back, screeching something I didn't care to make out. The vision was brief, but I could see the blood on the wall. The sorrow and the bloodied cloth. I could see Anya, now covered from head to toe, drifting through the castle like a ghost..

It was enough to make my blood boil. My wife would not be happy about that, but the rest of the visions that followed weren't much better. A wave of anger surged through me. Who the hell gave her the right to act like that? There was no way that Hayato knew about Ari's behavior toward the

staff.

It didn't matter. I'd deal with her. I could see her slumped in the darkness of an underground cell, but that wasn't good enough for me.

She'd

pay

in blood soon enough. I grinned. I'd have to do it before Morgan woke up to maximize

the justice to be done.

the rest of the garden, taking note

to the pool, frowning down at her. It was too much to do all of it

clean your garden

Morgan

consciousness, my mind a swirling vortex of images and sensations. It was as if I were watching a play, each scene was more haunting and terrible than before. I saw a young

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in the roar of the fire. I felt my chest seizing from the heat and the lack of

it was. My eyes were stinging.

of warriors came down a hill at me. Magic flashed through the air, a man fearsome amber eyes like a cat sat astride

and slaughtered as many as I could manage, but the enemy was too strong. A volley of arrows launched into the air, blotting

shield. He screamed in protest, but it was too

hit me in the chest-my leg, my neck and dragged me

myself tumbling though the air. Falling, flying, somewhere and I flailed. I didn't want to see it again. I didn't want to even believe that

thin wrists that I had been starved. The bruises meant I had been beaten. There was a deep, throbbing ache that I didn't want to think about. My body was weak, my spirit broken. I closed my eyes, feeling my body starting

I yelled, flailing through the clouds. "If you can

I was no more than a child. People stood on the banks lodging in. But I didn't call Ottawa. They were disappointed. They were just

sitting on a rock. Her eyes were a deep black

back.

current pulled me under, the water closing over my head. I struggled, I fought, but it was no use.

there

in some ways. I wanted to scream, to wake up, to escape

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