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.

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, I never bothered to use them. It was

looked genuinely confused,

"That's terrible."

always wanted to try it, so this is

leaning my head back against the

me and I cracked an eye open. His eyes were bright with excitement. He grinned at

that made it hard to reconcile the fact

had a proper honeymoon," he began,

eyes bulged at

but...

looked away. "You were

settle down," he

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

pool, surrounded

perhaps... the next time we are in your realm, we will go

a little more into the

I whispered, a genuine smile playing on

"You need not thank

me, wife."

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

ears, a maddening drumbeat that

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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 me now. How everything between me and

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

my face, blurring my vision. How could it be? How could everything have gone so wrong? Tsuneo... my Tsuneo... he was supposed to be mine.

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

"That little bitch!"

his side. I spoke with the concubines and managed them and their petty gossip. I made the lazy servants do exactly

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