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.

He looked at me as if he already knew I was lying and it pained 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...

at that. He looked genuinely confused, or maybe

"That's terrible."

wanted to try it, so this is a pretty good close

sighed, leaning my head back against the stone and closing

cracked an eye open. His eyes were

made it hard to reconcile the fact that he'd killed his brother

had a proper

bulged at the thought. He

but... I wouldn't

away. "You were

settle down,"

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

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

next time we are in your realm, we will go to these Jaki Baths so you have something to

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

incredible," I whispered, a genuine smile playing

"You need not thank

me, wife."

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

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

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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

over. I stormed into my chambers, slamming the heavy oak door with a resounding

it be? How could everything have gone so wrong? Tsuneo... my Tsuneo... he was supposed to be mine. I knew since we were children that we were destined

Empress.

His wife!

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 child. I couldn't stop until every surface was bare and overturned. My pillows on the floor. Sheets ripped and shredded, yet

"That little bitch!"

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

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