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.

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.

confused, or maybe troubled. Then he

"That's terrible."

shrugged. "ve always wanted to try it, so this is a

against the stone and closing my

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

reconcile the fact that he'd killed his brother over

a proper honeymoon," he began,

bulged at the thought.

that, but... I wouldn't be

looked away. "You were

things settle down," he

hidden.

in a magical pool, surrounded by

realm, we will go

lips twitched and I sunk down a little more into the

genuine

"You need not thank

me, wife."

evening had melted away, replaced by a sense of intimacy and

blood roared in my ears, a maddening drumbeat

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the hall away from 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

threatening to boil over. I stormed into my chambers, slamming the heavy oak

How could it be? How could everything have gone so wrong? Tsuneo... my Tsuneo... he was

Empress.

His wife!

almost cathartic. I screamed and threw chairs. I clawed through a tapestry I'd had since I was child. I

"That little bitch!"

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

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