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.

meeting his gaze. He looked at 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...

confused, or maybe troubled. Then he

"That's terrible."

to try it, so this is

head back against the stone and closing

open. His eyes were bright with excitement.

hard to reconcile the fact that he'd killed his brother over

had a proper honeymoon,"

eyes bulged at the thought. He

but...

looked away. "You were

things settle down," he

like a great deal. There are these... fairy springs, hidden. deep within

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

realm, we will go to

and I sunk down a

sounds incredible," I whispered, a genuine smile

"You need not thank

me, wife."

silence, the only sound the gentle lapping of the water. The tension of the evening had melted

my ears, a maddening drumbeat that drowned out everything else

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room. Servants jumped out of my way, but I could hear them snickering, laughing, gossiping

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 that we were destined

Empress.

His wife!

I clawed through a tapestry

"That little bitch!"

and their petty gossip. I made the lazy servants do

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