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

it was my fault that my family were jerk No one

He looked genuinely confused, or maybe troubled. Then he sat

"That's terrible."

"ve always wanted to try it,

against the stone and

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

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

haven't had a proper honeymoon," he began, then

at the thought.

like that, but...

away.

things settle down,"

deal. There are these... fairy springs, hidden. deep within the mountains to

bathing in a magical pool, surrounded by

realm, we will go to these Jaki Baths

a little more into

incredible," I whispered, a genuine

"You need not thank

me, wife."

The tension of the evening had melted away, replaced by a sense

in my ears, a maddening

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out of my way, but I could hear them snickering, laughing, gossiping about me. About what that human woman

through my veins, threatening to boil over. I stormed into my chambers, slamming the heavy

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 side-by-side. I was destined to be

Empress.

His wife!

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 for the tempest raging within

"That little bitch!"

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

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