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

off, meeting his gaze. He looked at me as if he already knew I was lying and it pained 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,

that. He looked genuinely confused, or maybe

"That's terrible."

to try it, so this is a pretty good

back against

eye open. His eyes were

reconcile the fact that he'd

had a proper honeymoon," he began, then

eyes bulged at

but...

looked away. "You were

things settle

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

of bathing in a magical pool, surrounded by nature, sounded worlds

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

I sunk down a little more into

incredible," I whispered, a genuine

"You need not thank

me, wife."

evening had

my ears, a 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 the king was treating me now. How everything between me and Tsuneo

to boil over. I stormed into my chambers,

vision. How could it be? How could everything have gone so wrong? Tsuneo... my Tsuneo... he was supposed to be mine. I knew since we were children that we were destined to rule

Empress.

His wife!

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 floor. Sheets ripped and shredded, yet it did nothing

"That little bitch!"

coma. I was at his side. I spoke with the concubines and managed them and their petty gossip. I made the

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