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.

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... I was too busy to go. Even though the estate has communal bathing arrangements, I never bothered to use them. It was pretty obvious that most

looked genuinely confused, or maybe

"That's terrible."

"ve always wanted to try it, so this

head back against the stone

nudged me and I cracked an eye open. His

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

had a proper honeymoon,"

bulged at the thought. He

that, but... I

looked away.

things settle

I think you will like a great deal. There are these... fairy springs, hidden.

idea of bathing in a magical pool, surrounded by nature, sounded

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

lips twitched and I sunk down a little

a genuine smile playing on my

"You need not thank

me, wife."

of the evening had melted

my ears, a maddening

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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 and

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

everything have gone so wrong? Tsuneo... my Tsuneo... he was supposed to be mine. I knew since we

Empress.

His wife!

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

"That little bitch!"

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

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