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

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

confused,

"That's terrible."

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

my head back against the stone and closing my

an eye open. His eyes were

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

a proper

bulged at the thought.

like that, but... I wouldn't be

away.

things settle down,"

I think you will 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 than bathing with half

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

lips twitched and I sunk down a little more into

genuine

"You need not thank

me, wife."

the water. The tension of the evening had melted away,

roared in my ears, a maddening drumbeat

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

hot and consuming, pulsed through my veins, threatening to boil over. I stormed into my chambers, slamming

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 were children that

Empress.

His wife!

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. My pillows on the floor. Sheets ripped and shredded, yet it did nothing for the tempest raging within me. This wasn't fair! It

"That little bitch!"

managed them and their petty gossip. I made

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