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 bathing arrangements, I never bothered

genuinely confused, or

"That's terrible."

"ve always wanted to try it, so this is a pretty good

against the stone and closing

an eye open. His

reconcile the fact that he'd killed

haven't had a proper

bulged at the

like that, but... I wouldn't

away. "You were

things settle down,"

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

bathing in a magical pool, surrounded by nature, sounded worlds better

we will go to

lips twitched and I sunk down a little more into the bath with a

genuine smile playing on

"You need not thank

me, wife."

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

maddening

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down 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 was treating me now. How everything between me and

consuming, pulsed through my veins, 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 supposed to

Empress.

His wife!

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

"That little bitch!"

as Tsuneo's wife. I'd taken care 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

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