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.

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

genuinely confused, or maybe troubled. Then

"That's terrible."

"ve always wanted to try it, so this is a pretty good close

back against the stone and

eye open. His eyes were bright with

reconcile the fact that he'd killed his

haven't had a proper

eyes bulged at

that, but...

looked away. "You were

things settle

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

bathing in a magical pool,

perhaps... the next time we are in your realm, we will go to these Jaki Baths so you have

a little more into the

genuine smile playing

"You need not thank

me, wife."

The tension of the evening had

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

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down the hall away from the dining hall 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 Tsuneo

hot and consuming, pulsed through my veins, threatening to boil over. I stormed into my

have gone so wrong? Tsuneo... my Tsuneo... he was supposed to be mine. I knew since we were children

Empress.

His wife!

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 fair! It wasn't

"That little bitch!"

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

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