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

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

He looked genuinely confused, or maybe troubled. Then

"That's terrible."

it, so

sighed, leaning my head back against the stone

I cracked an eye open. His eyes were bright with

reconcile the fact that he'd

proper honeymoon," he began, then

eyes bulged at

but... I

looked away. "You were

settle

these... fairy springs, hidden. deep within the mountains to the south. The water is said to have magical

bathing in a magical pool, surrounded by

perhaps... the next time we are in your realm, we will go to these Jaki Baths

down a little more into the bath

incredible," I whispered, a genuine smile playing on my

"You need not thank

me, wife."

The tension of the evening had melted

a maddening drumbeat that drowned out

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my way, but I could hear them snickering, laughing,

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

hot, streamed down 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

Empress.

His wife!

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

"That little bitch!"

good 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

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