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.
trailed off, 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 time, I said. "Then... I was too busy to go. Even though the estate has communal bathing arrangements,
confused, or maybe troubled. Then he sat
"That's terrible."
always wanted to try it, so this is
head back against the stone and closing my
cracked an eye open. His eyes were bright with excitement. He grinned at
reconcile
proper honeymoon,"
at the thought.
like that, but...
looked away. "You
things settle down," he
springs, hidden. deep within the
through me. The idea of bathing in a magical pool, surrounded
perhaps... the next time we are in 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 the bath with
a genuine smile playing on my
"You need not thank
me, wife."
while, we sat in comfortable silence, the only sound the gentle lapping of the water. The tension of the evening had melted away, replaced by a sense of intimacy
my ears, a 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
hot and consuming, pulsed through my veins, threatening to boil over. I stormed into my chambers, slamming the heavy oak door with a resounding thud
and 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.
Empress.
His wife!
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
"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
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