The Dragon King's Substitute Bride (Morgan and Tsuneo) novel Chapter 67

CH67 

Morgan 

The hesitation in him gave me pause. I looked up and saw it all over his face and the way his dark opall eyes flickered. He was hiding something from me. Pushing him would get me nowhere, so I said nothing, just watching him struggle with it. He’d confide in me when he was ready. We had at least gotten that far in our relationship for me to know that for certain. 

For now, I just leaned against him, enjoying the heat of the baths. 

“Should we talk about something else?” 

“I don’t mean to hide things from you.” 

“I know” I sighed and closed my eyes. 

A few moments of silence passed before 1 thought of something to say. 

“Tell me a story,” I said, my voice soft, the gentle lapping of the water providing a soothing backdrop. 

Tsuneo chuckled, his voice warm. My heart skipped a beat. 

“I know you are young, but I did not expect you to be that young.” 

I nudged him. “And how old are you?” 

In your realm’s years, or mine?” 

….yours.” 

“Five and twenty.” 

I blinked at that. I didn’t even want to know what the equivalent was. Hundreds? Thousands? I shook my head. This is probably not what one of my aunts meant by marrying an older man, but I doubt she would have complained. 

“Well, you’re at least older than I am, so tell me a story. 

“What kind of story?” he asked. 

“Anything,” I replied. Something about your realm.” 

He hummed 

“Do you know the legend of the first dragon and phoenix?” he asked. 

I shook my head. “Not a story that’s made it all these years. Tell me.” 

In the beginning, there was only chaos. A void filled with darkness and despair. And then, from that void, rose the first dragon, a creature of immense power and beauty. But with great power came great loneliness, and so the dragon yearned for a companion.” 

I frowned. “How could a void of nothing know what darkness is? Despair?” 

He chuckled. “If you overthink the stories, they cease to be enjoyable… don’t you think?” 

I shrugged. “Go on. 

I had never been one for origin or creation myths. It always seemed so unbelievable. 

“I would not say I have not always had my doubts about the stories, but these are the stories that I was told as a child, the things our records say. These and the versions | kamu” 

When wrote the records was my first thought. But then hardly mattered. He was a dragon. This entire 

realm was a place 

a place of fantasy. 

CHET 

“Our records say that the first dragon, alone in a world of chaos, yearned for companionship. In answer to his plea, a phoenix was born, a creature of light and hope.” 

I frowned at that, but I didn’t say anything