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.

wasn't like it was my fault that my family were jerk No one ever want to

genuinely confused,

"That's terrible."

always wanted to try it, so

back against the

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

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

had a proper

eyes bulged at

that, but... I

away. "You

things settle down,"

fairy springs, hidden. deep within the mountains to the south. The water is said to have

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

will go to these Jaki Baths so you

I sunk down a little more into

genuine smile

"You need not thank

me, wife."

The tension of the evening had melted away, replaced by

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

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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 treating me now. How everything between me

veins, threatening to boil over. I stormed into my chambers, slamming the heavy oak door with a resounding thud that echoed through

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 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 it did nothing for the tempest raging within me.

"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

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