Chapter 51

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Morgan

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

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

genuinely confused, or maybe troubled. Then he

"That's terrible."

try it, so

my head back against the stone and closing my

I cracked an eye open. His eyes

it hard to reconcile the fact that he'd killed

proper

bulged at the thought.

like that, but... I

away. "You

things settle

like a great deal. There are these... fairy springs, hidden. deep within the mountains to the south. The water is said to have magical properties, and the

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

will go to these Jaki Baths so you have something

a little more into

a genuine smile playing on my

"You need not thank

me, wife."

comfortable silence, the only sound the gentle lapping of the water. The tension of the evening had melted away, replaced by a sense of intimacy and relaxation we both needed.

ears, a 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

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

wrong? Tsuneo... my Tsuneo... he was supposed to be mine.

Empress.

His wife!

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

"That little bitch!"

side. I spoke with the concubines and managed them and their petty gossip. I made the lazy

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