The Dragon King's Substitute Bride

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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."

Neo's sternness faltered for a moment, warming as he

a great student." He looked down at Kai. "Are

nodded let go of my hand. Kai followed the man inside. The boy glanced back at me,

time before disappearing into the

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silence returned, wapping around me like a familiar shroud,

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

with a sense of time, understand

themselves.

secret to my father's

they were always running out of time, they would naturally want to conserve as much of it as possible. Repeating the same battles, the same struggles, never trying to

more from my wife's human experience than

the day that you will teach her something that she will desperately

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 moment, how often he'd walked

or

My fingers traced the lines of

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

and how much money was truly missing. This wasn't the first time I'd found errors

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child, sitting with mother, going over the books, learning to read

recalled, my mother had sussed out the issue fairly quickly and taken care of it. This felt like the same pattern as then too, so it was likely

wasn't sure who was bold enough to steal from the palace again using the same techniques, but I

They ha

be a member of the royal family, but who had

over the years?

deer with a

closed the snap and stood, my mind already working through the possibilities. This would require more than a casual investigation, and I wasn't

had happened recently, it was unlikely that it had started recently. I opened it again, flipping to where the funds should have been allocated for

and nodded.

was money a supplies missing from there, too, so someone among the Elders had to be involved, too. A dead one? One still alive?