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."

aren't really.

meeting his gaze. He looked at me as if he already knew I was lying and 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

looked genuinely confused,

"That's terrible."

wanted to try it, so this is

sighed, leaning my head back against the stone and closing

nudged me and I cracked an eye open. His

way that made it hard to reconcile the

haven't had a proper honeymoon," he

at the thought. He

that, but... I wouldn't

looked away. "You were

settle down," he

these... fairy springs, hidden. deep within the

of bathing in a magical pool,

we will go to these Jaki Baths so you have something to compare it

twitched and I sunk down a little

genuine smile playing on my lips. "Thanks,

"You need not thank

me, wife."

sound the gentle lapping of the water. The tension of the evening had melted away, replaced by a sense of intimacy and relaxation we both needed. The world outside

a maddening drumbeat that drowned out everything else

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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 Tsuneo

I stormed into my chambers, slamming the heavy oak door with a resounding thud that echoed through the

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

Empress.

His wife!

shriek of fury, knocking over a 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. My pillows on the floor.

"That little bitch!"

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

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