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. It's

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 to use

genuinely confused,

"That's terrible."

try it, so this is a pretty good

against the stone

an eye open. His eyes were bright with excitement. He grinned at

reconcile

a proper

bulged at the

like that, but...

looked away. "You were

settle down,"

fairy springs, hidden. deep

of bathing in a magical pool,

perhaps... the next time we are in your realm, we will go to these

down a little more into

a genuine smile playing on

"You need not thank

me, wife."

of the evening had melted away, replaced by a sense of intimacy and relaxation we both

my ears, a maddening drumbeat that drowned

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toward my room. Servants jumped out of my way, but I could hear them snickering, laughing, gossiping about me. About what that human woman

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

face, blurring my vision. How could it be? How could everything have gone so wrong? Tsuneo... my Tsuneo... he was supposed to be mine. I

Empress.

His wife!

whirled around 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,

"That little bitch!"

years, I had been as good as Tsuneo's wife. I'd taken care of him while he was in his coma. I 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 was crown princess and queen in every way that

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