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."

really. It's

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 them. It was pretty obvious that most

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

"That's terrible."

it, so

my head back against the

cracked an eye open. His eyes were bright with

it hard to reconcile the fact that

haven't had a proper honeymoon," he began, then

bulged at the

but...

looked away. "You were

settle down," he

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

idea of bathing in a magical pool, surrounded by nature, sounded worlds better

realm, we will go to these Jaki Baths so you have something to compare it

a little more into the bath with

sounds incredible," I whispered, a genuine smile playing on my lips. "Thanks,

"You need not thank

me, wife."

The tension of the evening had melted away, replaced by a sense of

blood roared in my ears, a maddening drumbeat that drowned out

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snickering, laughing, gossiping about me. About what that human woman had said. How the king was treating me now. How everything between

my chambers, slamming the heavy oak door with

Tsuneo...

Empress.

His wife!

face flashed through my mind. I 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

"That little bitch!"

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

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