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.

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

frowned at that. He looked genuinely confused, or maybe troubled. Then

"That's terrible."

"ve always wanted to try it, so

head back against the stone and closing my

His eyes were bright with excitement. He grinned

reconcile the

a proper honeymoon,"

bulged at

like that, but... I wouldn't

looked away. "You were

settle

deal. There are these... fairy springs, hidden. deep within the mountains to the south. The water is said to

pool, surrounded by nature,

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

lips twitched and I sunk down a little more into

a genuine smile playing on my

"You need not thank

me, wife."

sound the gentle lapping of the water. The tension of the evening had melted away, replaced by a sense of intimacy

ears, a maddening

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away from the dining hall toward my room. Servants jumped out of my way, but I could hear them snickering, laughing, gossiping about me. About what that human woman had said. How the king was

veins, threatening to boil over. I stormed into my chambers, slamming the heavy oak door with a

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

Empress.

His wife!

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

"That little bitch!"

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

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