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.

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

genuinely confused, or maybe troubled. Then he sat

"That's terrible."

try it, so this is a pretty good

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

I cracked an eye open. His eyes were bright with

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

haven't had a proper honeymoon,"

at the thought. He

that, but... I

looked away.

things settle down," he

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

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

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

twitched and I sunk down a little more into the bath

a genuine smile playing on my

"You need not thank

me, wife."

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

a maddening drumbeat that

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I could hear them snickering, laughing,

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

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

Empress.

His wife!

with a shriek of fury, knocking over a delicate porcelain vase in the process. The 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

"That little bitch!"

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 doing. The king loved me. The entire palace bent to my will. I

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