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.

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

confused, or maybe troubled.

"That's terrible."

try it, so this

my head back against the stone and

I cracked an eye open. His eyes were bright

made it hard to reconcile the

had a proper honeymoon," he began, then

at the thought.

that, but... I wouldn't be

looked away. "You were

settle

like a great deal. There are these... fairy springs, hidden. deep within the mountains to the south. The water

bathing in a magical pool, surrounded by nature, sounded worlds better than bathing with half

we will go to these Jaki Baths so you have something to

sunk down a

a genuine smile playing on my lips. "Thanks,

"You need not thank

me, wife."

evening had

in my ears, a maddening

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but I could hear them snickering, laughing, gossiping about me. About what that human woman had said. How the king was treating me

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

have gone so wrong? Tsuneo... my Tsuneo... he was supposed to be mine.

Empress.

His wife!

and threw chairs. I clawed through a

"That little bitch!"

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 doing. The king loved me. The

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