The Dragon King's Substitute Bride

Chapter 51

Chapter 51

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Tsuneo looked surprised.

"What is it?"

"I was under the impression that your family of humans-"

I snickered. He wrinkled his nose.

"Is that odd phrasing?"

"A little," I smiled at him. "But a little endearing..."

His smile turned warm, and his eyes brightened. I looked away.

"You were saying?"

"Your family... is from an area that bathes communally, isn't it?"

"My father's family, yes." I nodded. "But I never got the to never had the time, and I was always excluded from going."

go to the communal baths. I

My lips twitched at the thought.

"The Jaki Baths in my hometown are the best on this side of the continent, but I never went."

"Why?"

"Well..." I shrugged. "It was a luxury, for one."

"Your family didn't seem to be poor."

really. It's

me as if he already knew I was lying and it pained him. I-bit-my lip and dropped my gaze to my knees. After everything, should I really be cagey about this? It wasn't like it was my fault that my family were jerk No one ever want to go with me when I had time, I said. "Then... I was too busy to go. Even though the estate has communal bathing arrangements,

confused,

"That's terrible."

always wanted to try it, so this

my head back against the stone and

nudged me and I cracked an eye open. His eyes

hard to reconcile

proper

bulged at the thought.

like that, but... I

looked away. "You

things settle

are these... fairy springs, hidden. deep within the mountains to

in a magical pool, surrounded by nature, sounded worlds

are in your realm, we will go to these Jaki Baths so you have something to

a little

a genuine smile playing on

"You need not thank

me, wife."

gentle lapping of the water. The tension of the evening had melted away, replaced by

roared in my ears, a maddening

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Servants jumped out of my way, but I could hear them snickering, laughing, gossiping about me. About what that human woman had said. How the king was treating me now. How

to boil over. I stormed into my chambers, slamming the heavy oak door with

vision. How could it be? How could everything have gone so wrong? Tsuneo... my Tsuneo... he was supposed to be mine. I knew since we were children that we were

Empress.

His wife!

knocking over a delicate porcelain vase in the process. The sound of shattering echoed through the room was almost cathartic. I screamed and threw chairs. I clawed through a tapestry I'd had since I was child. I couldn't stop until every surface was bare and overturned. My pillows on the floor. Sheets ripped and shredded, yet it did nothing for the tempest raging within me. This wasn't

"That little bitch!"

I spoke with the concubines and managed them and their petty gossip. I made the lazy servants

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