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."

moment,

looked down at

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

before

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familiar shroud, but it wasn't uncomfortable. Even

Much like respect... my Pyrn taught me that. Something as simple as acknowledging someone by name

found that those with a sense of time, understand the value of using that time

themselves.

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

of time, they would naturally want to conserve as much of it as possible. Repeating

learn a lot more from my wife's human experience

day that you will teach her something

turned and made my way to 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

or

sat behind his wide wooden desk, flipping open the latest report from the treasury. My fingers traced the lines of figures, just

be. But as I scanned the most recent entries, I noticed several inconsistencies. There were several 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 siphoning money,

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

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been just a child, sitting with mother, going over the books,

the issue fairly quickly and taken care of it. This felt like the same pattern as then too, so it was likely the

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

They ha

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

over the years?

deer with a

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 get

recently, it was unlikely that it had started recently. I opened it again, flipping to where the

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? I wouldn't know