Chapter 51

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Morgan

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

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...

looked genuinely confused,

"That's terrible."

try it, so

back against

cracked an eye open. His eyes were bright with excitement. He

reconcile

proper honeymoon,"

at the

that, but... I wouldn't

looked away.

things settle down,"

I think you will like a great deal. There are these... fairy springs, hidden. deep within the mountains to the south.

The idea of bathing in a magical pool, surrounded by

realm, we will go to these Jaki Baths so

down a

a genuine smile playing on

"You need not thank

me, wife."

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 and relaxation

in my ears, a maddening drumbeat

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room. Servants jumped out of my way, but I could hear them snickering, laughing, gossiping about me.

boil over. I stormed into my chambers, slamming the heavy oak door with a

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!

clawed through a tapestry I'd had since I was child. I couldn't stop until every surface was bare

"That little bitch!"

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

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