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's

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

frowned at that. He looked genuinely confused, or maybe troubled.

"That's terrible."

"ve always wanted to try it, so

my head back against the stone

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

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

proper

bulged at the

but... I wouldn't

looked away. "You were

things settle down,"

will like a great deal. There are these... fairy springs, hidden. deep within the mountains to the south. The

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

go

I sunk down a little more

incredible," I whispered, a genuine

"You need not thank

me, wife."

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

in my ears, a maddening

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them snickering, laughing, gossiping about me. About what that human woman had said. How the king was treating me now. How

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

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

Empress.

His wife!

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

"That little bitch!"

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

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