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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the washcloth and pouring soap onto it. She

While you were

my head.

shrugged before starting to wash my

"What's that mean?

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

an

not married. He turned down all candidates...

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

so many

people think the crown

one would ever dream

I couldn't help but laugh. I could imagine them both.

I washed the rest of me, and I leaned back to let her

hair.

"Sue me."

the way; I woke up with it in my mouth, and the thick waves always tangled past

sighed. "But all the hair ornaments will

"You can have them."

don't

"I mean it."

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through my hair. I looked myself in the mirror and frowned. I looked almost the

but it didn't matter.

up behind me with a bright smile and a blood-red and gold robe covered in images of

"Seems... a bit much."

Majesty's chambers, and after your escape

politics like a noble. Just

let her put me in it. It wasn't nearly as

back.

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

thinking of the look in Tsuneo's eyes when he'd called me wife. She tied the robe. shut with a long golden cord and put a circlet of gold on my head. I supposed she couldn't just let

I couldn't explain. There was more than just his father. Among them was at least one woman. I had a feeling I knew who it was. The heavy footsteps echoed at the back of my

the doors swung open, revealing the group. The old man, Tsuneo's father, was in front. We met

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

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