The Dragon King's Substitute Bride

Chapter 13

Chapter 13

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Morgan

By the time Tsuneo was back in bed, my face was still burning. Maya was ecstatic to see me, embracing me despite how filthy I was. I hid the bag of gold in the closet and let Maya run a bath in Tsuneo's bathroom. She hadn't brought clothes with her, but I didn't ask. None of the clothes

were mine anyway.

Instead, my mind kept turning back to the fact that I was naked in his bathroom, and he was in the other room. I put up a privacy spell on the bathroom door, but it didn't make me think about it any less.

That will be the last time you thank me, wife.

The steam stung my eyes, blurring my reflection on the polished surface of the walls.

"Takes a certain sort of man to bathe in a mirrored bathroom," I mused.

"All the bathing chambers are like this. Even yours has changed. It's a good omen."

I sank into the hot water as my stomach filled with butterflies, remembering the deep, velvety

sound of his voice. I should still be upset, but it was hard to gather the anger together. He'd apologized sincerely. The look in his eyes when he apologized was so different than when he'd looked ready to kill me earlier.

"Maya."

"Yes, Your Majesty?" She paused, rolling up her sleeves.

"This queen thing... What exactly does it mean?"

"Every king needs a queen," she said.

""For children?"

She laughed. "It's very rare that the queen gives birth to the king's heir."

1 frowned and looked up at her. "What?"

"It's just too great of a risk. The king usually has a few concubines."

J frowned. "Tsuneo has concubines?"

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washcloth and pouring soap onto it. She smiled

While you were in the human

shook my head.

and shrugged before

"What's that mean?

"He's... a bit eccentric."

an

candidates... Some say he's... unnaturally attached to

blinked and laughed. "People think that he's in

in so many

people think

ever dream

lying, and I couldn't help but laugh. I could imagine

fun with that when his father came. She finished washing my back. I washed the rest of me, and I leaned back to let her

hair.

"Sue me."

woke up with it in my mouth, and the thick

all the hair ornaments will go

"You can have them."

Majesty, don't

"I mean it."

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hair. I looked myself in the mirror and frowned. I looked almost the same as always, but

but it didn't matter.

smile and a blood-red

"Seems... a bit much."

in His Majesty's chambers, and after your escape earlier, you'll need to make

scoffed. "Playing politics like a noble. Just

shrugged and let her put me in it. It wasn't

it back.

you're in the crown prince's chambers as his wife, so you're

She tied the robe. shut with a long

desk and took a deep breath. The walls trembled. I felt their approach in a way I couldn't explain. There was more than

open, revealing the group. The old man, Tsuneo's father, was in front. We met gazes. He flushed, and before he could speak,

you make it a habit of entering my husband's room without

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