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.

my knees. After everything, should I really be cagey about this? It wasn't like it was my fault that my family were

at that. He looked genuinely confused, or maybe troubled.

"That's terrible."

"ve always wanted to try it, so this is

head back against

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

that made it hard to reconcile the

haven't had a proper

at the

that, but... I wouldn't

looked away. "You were

things settle down,"

hidden. deep within the mountains to the south. The

bathing in a magical pool,

time we are in your realm, we will go to these

down a little more into the bath with

sounds incredible," I whispered, a genuine smile playing

"You need not thank

me, wife."

The tension of the evening had melted away, replaced by a sense of intimacy and relaxation we both needed. The world outside seemed to

in my ears, a maddening drumbeat that drowned out everything

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my way, but I could hear them snickering, laughing, gossiping about me. About

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 that

so wrong? Tsuneo... my Tsuneo... he was supposed to be mine. I knew since we were children that we were destined to rule side-by-side.

Empress.

His wife!

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

"That little bitch!"

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

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