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.

fault that my family were jerk No one ever want to

genuinely confused, or maybe troubled. Then he

"That's terrible."

wanted to try it, so this is a pretty good

sighed, leaning my head back against the stone and closing my

nudged me and I cracked an eye open. His

that made it hard to reconcile the fact that

haven't had a proper honeymoon,"

at the thought. He

that, but... I wouldn't

away. "You were

things settle down," he

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

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

next time we are in your realm, we will go

twitched and I sunk down a little more into the bath

a genuine smile playing on

"You need not thank

me, wife."

lapping of the water. The tension of the evening had

roared in my ears, a maddening drumbeat that drowned out everything

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toward my room. 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

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

wrong? Tsuneo... my Tsuneo...

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 it did nothing

"That little bitch!"

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 doing. The king loved me. The entire palace bent to my will. I was crown princess and queen in every way

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