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."

aren't really.

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, I never bothered to use them. It

looked genuinely confused, or maybe troubled. Then he

"That's terrible."

try it, so this

against

I cracked an eye open. His eyes

way that made it hard to reconcile the fact

a proper honeymoon," he began,

bulged at the thought.

but... I wouldn't

looked away. "You were

settle down," he

a place in mind, I think you will like a great deal. There are these... fairy springs, hidden. deep within the mountains to the south. The water is said to have magical properties, and the

me. The idea of bathing in a magical pool, surrounded by nature,

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

and I sunk down a little more into the bath with

whispered, a genuine

"You need not thank

me, wife."

a while, we sat in comfortable silence, the only sound the gentle lapping of the water. The tension of the evening had melted away, replaced by a sense of intimacy

ears, a maddening drumbeat that drowned out everything

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

into my chambers, slamming the heavy oak door with a resounding thud that echoed through

so wrong? Tsuneo... my Tsuneo... he was supposed to

Empress.

His wife!

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

"That little bitch!"

their petty gossip. I made the lazy servants

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