The Dragon King's Substitute Bride

Chapter 106

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Tsuneo

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."

moment, warming as he bowed his

looked down at

my hand. Kai followed the man inside. The boy glanced back

before

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closed, the silence returned, wapping around me like a familiar shroud, but it wasn't uncomfortable. Even Tarofu seemed a little more at ease.

taught me that. Something as simple as acknowledging someone by name is the first

with a sense of time, understand the value of

themselves.

my mind. Was that the secret to my father's wisdom? I couldn't say

it as possible. Repeating the same battles, the same struggles, never trying to make things

more from my wife's human experience than I

Look forward to it, and the day that you will teach her something

my father's office. The office was dimly lit, the shelves stacked high with ledgers, records, and scrolls that held the history and affairs of the palace. The door to the left led into my own office. I wondered, for a

or

wooden desk, flipping open the latest report from the treasury. My fingers traced the lines of figures, just checking to make sure that things were in order, but there was something

large sums of money 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 to trace all of the amounts at the moment, but I could see enough to understand. Someone was

sense of things and how much money was truly missing. This wasn't the first time I'd found errors like this. The

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with mother, going over

of it.

to steal from the palace again using the same techniques, but I could bet they weren't a

They ha

of the royal family, but who had my father given

over the years?

deer with a

the snap and stood, my mind already working through the possibilities. This would require more than a casual investigation, and I wasn't sure if we had the time to do it before the Convening, but I could at least

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

and nodded.

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