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. It's

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.

that. He looked genuinely confused, or maybe troubled. Then he

"That's terrible."

wanted to try it, so this is a pretty

against the stone

and I cracked an eye open. His eyes were bright with excitement.

to reconcile the fact that he'd killed his brother

proper

eyes bulged at the thought. He

but... I wouldn't be

looked away. "You were

things settle

deal. There are these... fairy springs, hidden. deep within the mountains to the south. The water is said to

The idea of bathing in a magical pool, surrounded by nature, sounded worlds better than bathing with half of

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

down a little more into the bath

I whispered, a genuine smile playing on my

"You need not thank

me, wife."

silence, the only sound the gentle lapping of the water. The tension of the evening had melted away, replaced by a sense of

in my ears, a maddening drumbeat that

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could hear them snickering, laughing, gossiping about me. About what that human woman had said. How the king was treating me now. How

pulsed through my veins, threatening to boil over. I stormed into my chambers, slamming the heavy oak door with a

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 destined to

Empress.

His wife!

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

"That little bitch!"

years, I had been as good as Tsuneo's wife. I'd taken care of him while he was in his coma. I was at his side. I spoke with the concubines and managed them and their petty gossip. I made the lazy servants do exactly what they should be

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