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. It's

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, I never bothered to use them. It was pretty obvious that most of

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

"That's terrible."

"ve always wanted to try it, so this is

back against the stone

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

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

a proper honeymoon," he

at

that, but... I

away.

settle down,"

you will like a great deal. There are these... fairy springs, hidden. deep within the

pool, surrounded by nature, sounded worlds better than

we will go to these

sunk down a little more into

I whispered, a genuine smile playing on my

"You need not thank

me, wife."

gentle lapping of the water. The tension of the evening had melted away, replaced by

maddening drumbeat that drowned out everything

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

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

gone so wrong? Tsuneo... my Tsuneo... he was supposed to be mine. I knew since we were children that

Empress.

His wife!

human's face flashed through my mind. I whirled 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

"That little bitch!"

his side. I spoke with the concubines and managed them and their petty

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