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, warming as he

great student." He looked down at

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

before disappearing into

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

that. Something as simple as acknowledging someone by name is the

time, understand the value of using that time to

themselves.

to my father's wisdom?

to conserve as much of it as possible. Repeating the same battles,

lot more from my wife's human experience

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

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

or

wooden desk, flipping open the latest report from the treasury. My fingers traced the lines of figures, just checking

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

chair, flipping through the documents to get a better sense of things and how much money was truly missing.

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

of it. This felt like the same pattern as then

enough to steal from the palace again

They ha

the royal family, but who had

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

unlikely that 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

and nodded.

too, so someone among the Elders had to be involved, too. A