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. It's

was my fault that my family were jerk

frowned at that. He looked genuinely confused,

"That's terrible."

try it, so this is a

sighed, leaning my head back against the stone and

nudged me and I cracked an eye open. His eyes

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

proper honeymoon," he began, then

at the thought. He

like that, but... I wouldn't

away. "You were

things settle down," he

a great deal. There are these... fairy springs, hidden. deep within the mountains to the south.

shot through me. The idea of bathing in a magical pool, surrounded by nature, sounded worlds better than bathing with half of

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

lips twitched and I sunk down a little more into

a genuine smile playing on my

"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

a maddening drumbeat that

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the hall away from the dining hall toward my room. Servants jumped out of my way, but I could hear them snickering, laughing, gossiping

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

wrong? Tsuneo... my Tsuneo... he was supposed

Empress.

His wife!

around with a 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

"That little bitch!"

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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