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

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

confused, or maybe

"That's terrible."

it, so this is a pretty

against the stone and

cracked an eye open. His eyes were bright

a way that made it hard to reconcile the

haven't had a proper

at

like that, but... I wouldn't

away. "You were

settle down," he

deal. There are these... fairy springs, hidden. deep within the mountains

shot through me. The idea of bathing in a magical pool, surrounded

next time we are in your realm, we will go to these Jaki

twitched and I sunk down a little more into the

whispered, a genuine smile

"You need not thank

me, wife."

evening had melted away, replaced by a sense of intimacy and relaxation we both needed. The

my ears, a maddening drumbeat that drowned

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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

hot and consuming, pulsed through my veins, threatening to boil over. I stormed into my chambers, slamming the heavy oak door with a resounding thud that echoed through

my Tsuneo... he was supposed

Empress.

His wife!

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.

"That little bitch!"

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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