<b>CH69 </b>
Morgan
I turned away. Praying myself from his hand over my eyes. my face was heated, but heat pooled in my stomach.
“Tell me why it matters so much that you’re not a golden dragon. Maybe <b>you </b>won’t be the most benevolent ruler, but you certainly won’t let anything happen to them.”
He sighed. “<b>The </b>elders and the subjects know that I would defend them with my life. But they wouldn’t be certain that I could rule them.”
“You’re dancing around it. What’s the problem<b>?</b>”
He sighed. “Is it <b>typical </b>for humans to <b>be </b><b>so </b>straightforward<b>?</b>”
“No, but I don’t have much time to waste. We have a court appearance to make in the morning, and <b>I’d </b>like to be rested for it. I want to have breakfast with Kai, and not have to drown myself in tea. You may wake up and look like you’ve slept in a pool of holy moonlight for <b>cons </b>and bepletely well- rested after only a few minutes of sleep, but I, being human, will have bags under my eyes and bepletely useless.”
Heughed. “What in the name of the dawn is holy moonlight?”
“It’s just a saying. <b>Don’t </b>worry about it. And I’m serious. If we’re going to go face Ari and the Elders, who clearly have designs against you,‘ I need to know why. Kai deserves the best defense we can <b>give </b>him, so we’re both going to have to be on our game. Out with it, Tsuneo<b>.” </b>
“What happened to not having to talk about it if I didn’t want to?”
“You’re not saying you don’t want to.” I paused and namowed my eyes. “Unless you’re saying you don’t want to.”
He smiled and kissed my nose. “I want to.”
Hey back down and pulled me down on top of him.
<b>“</b>Golden dragons are always meant to have more than one child. While Golden Dragons tend to have multiple colors of children. Only a golden dragon can give birth to a ck dragon… ck Dragons cannot <b>have </b>children.”
1 frowned. “Is that a government mandate or a physical thing?”
His brow furrowed. “It is an instinct. It is not something that has been recorded anywhere. It is just something that I know, like <b>a </b>memory that hase to me from my previous one. I have always known that I wouldn’t have children of my own.”
So, reincarnation is a thing? ? I’d <b>have </b>to ask about thatter.
“Do you think your father might know?”
“No, but I think that if I was on the throne, it would take no matter of time to figure it out. He scoffed. Besides the elders
just assume that <b>a </b>ck dragon can only have a ck dragon. They wouldn’t want another one of those anyway. And there is the fact that I am <b>a </b>creature of destruction
“ording to your stories, a ck dragon rose from a void from which everything else came. You’re a creature of chaos and potential. There’s a
difference.”
He blinked. And yet again, somehow, you have surprised me. No <b>one </b>would <b>have </b>ever said that to me. No one would ever believe it either.”
“Td be happy to teach a few <b>sses </b>on critical thinking if you think it necessary.” He <b>chuckled </b><b>as </b>I turned the information over in my mind. There’s no one, but she knows that you can t have children, so it’s not really a usable defense when ites to Kai..
1 posted. Does your father have other male children?”
“I have only ever known the one.”
“So your sisters are all different colors then?”
I would assume so. V
assume so. We don’t speak much. They resent the wholeheartedly.”
CH59
I winced. “I know that feeling it’s not the best. The Cousins whose ce I <b>took </b>toe here, actually still hates me. So…
“If at any time you wish to press charges of treason on her and her family, I will dly do so.
“Don’t be so bloodthirsty.” I nudged him. “Save it for someone who actually deserves it… Do you think his father could be reached? I’m pretty <b>sure </b><b>no </b>man would like <b>his </b>son to be imed by another man, right? Do you all have a concept of lineage here? Outside of nobility, that <b>is</b>.”
“Yes, of course. As for Knis, father, I’m not entirely sure. The things Kai said about how he grew up while <b>not </b>very informative, were informative enough. I don’t think he grew up inside the capital or even the central territories. At least he didn’t grow up somewhere where he would be able to direct <b>us</b>, I think. He may be able to be able to tell us to how Ari got him into the city, but I don’t have much more hope than that.”
…Do you think Ari would just outright lie? About his lineage, she has to be hanking on that lineage test, saying that this could be your child.”
“My father brought that up. Honestly, so long <b>as </b>he is rted to me through my father, the lineage test will say that he is of our lineage and-
“Wait, the lineage test can’t tell you whether or not he is <b>your </b>child <b>specifically </b>or
y or not. It just <b>says</b>, if he’s rted or not?
He shrugged. “It is a lineage test, not a father test.”
I groaned. “You don’t have a paternity test? Never mind. You clearly don’t, because <b>you </b>don’t even have a word for it.”
I shook my head<b>. </b><b>That </b>cleared things up. I was selfish <b>and </b>ambitious, but there was no way shed risk being ousted like this unless she had a very strong reason to believe that Kai would pass that lineage test, and he would if he just had to be rted to Tsuneo and she’d gotten pregnant by <b>some </b>long lost brother or nephew or something.
<b>“</b><b>A </b>member of the royal family, who isn’t talked <b>about </b>and probably isn’t well known that Ari would have ess to… Do you have anyone like that?”
<b>“</b><b>Short </b>of her assaulting me while I was unconscious? No.”
If Tsuneo didn’t know, then his father had to know. He had to have some sort of idea about who caused actual father was.
“Could be be Keiji’s!
Tsuneo blinked. That would give me an incredible amount of relief.”
“Do you think Ryle’s father could have been involved with your poisoning attempt? Or even the attack on your mother?”
I’ve always assumed it was Keiji,” he admitted, his voice love. “But now, I’m not so sure
A wave of fear washed over me. The implications of this were staggering. If Kai’s father was someone other than Keiji, it meant that there was a third party involved, someone who Ari had ess to and likely had designs on the pce. All rights ? N?velDrama.Org.
the throne itself rather…
If Kai turned out to be a golden dragon, then whoever his father was, who for whatever reason, couldn’t be in the pce or couldn’t im the throne directly could use Kai as a puppet. He’d put Ari on the throne beside Kal and be using them both as his puppets.
“Your grandfather! Did he have multiple children?”