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

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, or

"That's terrible."

it, so this is a pretty

my head back against the

and I cracked an eye open. His eyes

way that made it hard to reconcile the fact

a proper honeymoon," he began,

at the thought. He

but...

looked away. "You were

things settle down," he

a great deal. There are these... fairy springs, hidden. deep within the mountains to the south. The water is said to have

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

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

lips twitched and I sunk down a little more into

incredible," I whispered, a genuine smile playing on

"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

in my ears, a maddening drumbeat that drowned

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hall toward my 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

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!

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 floor. Sheets ripped and shredded, yet it did nothing for the tempest raging within me. This wasn't fair! It wasn't

"That little bitch!"

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

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