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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and pouring soap onto it. She

name... While you were in the

my head. "Doctor

hummed and shrugged before starting to wash my

"What's that mean?

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

an eyebrow.

He turned down all candidates... Some say he's... unnaturally attached to the crown

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

in so

think the crown prince

one would ever dream

said she was lying, and I couldn't help

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

hair.

"Sue me."

woke up with it in my mouth, and the thick waves always tangled past a certain

"But all the hair ornaments

"You can have them."

Majesty, don't joke

"I mean it."

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and pushed a comb through my hair. I looked myself in the mirror and frowned. I looked almost the same as always, but there was something that had changed. I didn't know if it was in my eyes

but it didn't matter.

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

"Seems... a bit much."

chambers, and after your escape earlier, you'll need to make a

politics like a noble. Just what I

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

back. This is

are more ornamented, but you're in the crown prince's chambers as

eyes when he'd called me wife. She tied the robe. shut with a long golden cord and put

to just lie there for hours without actually falling asleep. I settled into the seat at the writing desk and took a deep breath. The walls trembled. I felt their approach in a way 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

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

habit of entering my husband's

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