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. It's

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

He looked genuinely confused, or

"That's terrible."

try it, so

against

cracked an eye open. His eyes were bright with

to reconcile the fact that he'd killed his brother over

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

at the thought.

that, but... I wouldn't be

away. "You were

settle

in mind, I think you will like a great deal. There are these... fairy springs, hidden. deep within the mountains to the

shot through me. The idea of bathing in a magical pool, surrounded by nature, sounded worlds better than bathing with half of my

perhaps... the next time we are in your realm, we will go to these Jaki Baths

lips twitched and I sunk down a little more into the

genuine smile playing

"You need not thank

me, wife."

tension of the evening had melted away, replaced by a

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

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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 treating me now. How

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

so wrong? Tsuneo... my Tsuneo... he was supposed to be mine. I knew since we were children that

Empress.

His wife!

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

"That little bitch!"

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 my will. I was crown

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