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.

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...

that. He looked genuinely confused, or maybe

"That's terrible."

it, so this is a pretty good

back against the

an eye open. His eyes were

to reconcile the fact that he'd killed

proper

at the thought.

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

looked away.

settle

There are these... fairy springs, hidden. deep within the mountains to

bathing in a magical pool, surrounded

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

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

sounds incredible," I whispered, a genuine

"You need not thank

me, wife."

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 and relaxation we both needed. The world

a maddening drumbeat that drowned out everything

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but I could hear them snickering, laughing, gossiping about me. About what that human woman had

stormed into my chambers, slamming the

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 we were children that

Empress.

His wife!

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

"That little bitch!"

as 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 loved me. The entire palace bent to my will. I was crown princess and queen in every way

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