The Dragon King's Substitute Bride

Chapter 106

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His eyes lit up and he threw his arms around my legs, squeezing tight. I pat his head.

I'll be the best little brother," he said soft and carnest.

"Of that, I have no doubt."

He looked up. "Are you going to be there for dinner too? You have lots of work to do, right?"

""I'll do my best."

He nodded. "Do you have to stay in the palace all day? Or do you get to go outside sometimes?"

"Sometimes.

That sounds boring," he remarked with a small pout. "I bet I could help. I'm really good at organizing things."

A faint smirk tugged at the corner of my lips. "Is that so?"

"Yup!" Kai said proudly. "Just you wait until I can read and right. I'll be the best helper ever."

Better than Lady Morgan?"

de flushed. "I don't know about that."

chuckled, squeezing him to my side as we reached the room.

You're a smart man."

knocked on the door. His tutor, an elderly man with a stern expression, opened the dor. He was ew and a bit unfamiliar to me, but Tarofu gave me his name. Master Neo," I nodded. "Thank you for educating him."

for a moment,

down at Kai. "Are

nodded let go of my hand. Kai followed the man inside. The boy

before disappearing into the

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around me like a familiar shroud,

as simple as acknowledging someone by name is the first

a sense of time, understand

themselves.

that, trying to get over in my mind. Was that the secret to my father's wisdom? I couldn't say that the humans

running out of time, they would naturally want to conserve as much of it as possible. Repeating the same battles, the same

lot more from my wife's

forward to it, and the day that you will teach

stacked high with ledgers, records, and scrolls that held the history and affairs of the palace. The door to the left

or

traced the lines of figures, just checking to make sure that things were in order, but there

that had vanished it seemed. Not all at once, but in little increments that wouldn't have seemed strange at the first glance. I couldn't take the time

get a better sense of things and how much money was truly missing. This wasn't

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sitting with mother, going over the books,

recalled, my mother had sussed out the issue fairly quickly and taken care of it. This felt like the same

steal from the palace again using the same techniques, but I

They ha

a member of the royal family, but who had my father given

over the years?

deer with a

and I wasn't sure if we had the time to do it before the Convening, but I could at least get

that it had started recently. I opened it again, flipping to where the funds should have been allocated for Morgan's trips to the

and nodded.

supplies missing from there, too, so someone among the Elders had to be involved, too. A dead one? One still alive? I wouldn't know until