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

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, I said. "Then... I was too busy to go. Even though the estate has

He looked genuinely confused, or maybe troubled. Then

"That's terrible."

to try it, so

back against the stone and

eye open. His eyes were

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

a proper honeymoon," he began,

eyes bulged at

like that, but... I wouldn't be

away. "You

settle

these... fairy springs, hidden. deep within the mountains to the south. The water is said to have magical properties, and the setting

of bathing in a magical pool, surrounded

we are in your realm, we will go

sunk down a little more

genuine smile

"You need not thank

me, wife."

only sound the gentle lapping of the water. The tension of the evening had melted away, replaced by a sense of intimacy and relaxation we both

in my ears, a maddening drumbeat that drowned out everything else

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but I could hear them snickering, laughing, gossiping about

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

be? How could everything have gone so wrong? Tsuneo... my Tsuneo... he was supposed to be mine. I knew since we were

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,

"That little bitch!"

of him while he was 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 do exactly what they should be doing. The king loved

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