The Dragon King's Substitute Bride

Chapter 51

Chapter 51

CH51

Morgan

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.

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... 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 of my family

genuinely confused, or

"That's terrible."

"ve always wanted to try it, so this is

my head back against the stone and closing

me and I cracked an eye open. His eyes were bright with excitement.

made it hard to reconcile the

proper honeymoon," he began,

at the thought.

that, but... I

looked away. "You were

settle down," he

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

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

we will go to these Jaki Baths so you have something to

lips twitched and I sunk down a little more into the bath with a

I whispered, a genuine smile playing

"You need not thank

me, wife."

in comfortable silence, the only sound the gentle lapping of the water. The tension of the evening had melted away, replaced by a sense of intimacy and relaxation we both needed. The world

blood roared in my ears, a maddening drumbeat that

CH51

82

laughing, gossiping about me. About what that human woman had

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

traitorous and hot, streamed down my 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 knew since we

Empress.

His wife!

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 did nothing for the tempest

"That little bitch!"

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 Novel will be updated daily. Come back and continue reading tomorrow, everyone!

Comments ()

0/255