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.

be cagey about this? It wasn't like it was my fault that my family were jerk No

looked genuinely confused,

"That's terrible."

to try it, so this is

head back against the stone

cracked an eye open. His eyes were bright with excitement. He grinned

a way that made it hard to reconcile the fact

a proper honeymoon," he began, then

at the

that, but... I

looked away. "You

things settle

these... fairy springs, hidden. deep within the mountains to the south.

The idea of bathing in a magical pool, surrounded

will go

I sunk down a little more into the bath with

a genuine smile playing on my lips.

"You need not thank

me, wife."

the only sound the gentle lapping of the water. The tension of the evening had melted away,

ears, a maddening drumbeat

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way, but I could hear them snickering, laughing, gossiping about me. About what that human woman had said. How the king was treating me

threatening to boil over. I stormed into my chambers,

wrong? Tsuneo... my Tsuneo... he was supposed to be mine. I knew since we were children that we were destined to rule side-by-side. I was destined

Empress.

His wife!

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.

"That little bitch!"

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 my will. I was crown princess and queen in every way that

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