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.

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

frowned at that. He looked genuinely confused, or maybe troubled.

"That's terrible."

shrugged. "ve always wanted to try it,

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

open. His eyes were bright with excitement. He grinned

way that made it hard to reconcile the fact that he'd killed

a proper honeymoon," he began, then

at the thought. He

that, but... I wouldn't be

away. "You were

settle down," he

There are these... fairy springs, hidden. deep within the mountains to the south. The

bathing in a magical pool, surrounded

will go to

and I sunk down a little more into the bath with

sounds incredible," I whispered, a genuine

"You need not thank

me, wife."

water. The tension of the evening had melted away, replaced by a sense of

maddening drumbeat

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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

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

my Tsuneo... he was supposed to be

Empress.

His wife!

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 shredded, yet it did nothing for the tempest raging within me. This

"That little bitch!"

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

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