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

that. He looked genuinely confused, or

"That's terrible."

it, so this is a pretty

leaning my head back against the stone and closing my

eye open. His eyes

to reconcile the fact that he'd

proper honeymoon," he began,

eyes bulged at

like that, but...

looked away.

settle down,"

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

a magical pool, surrounded by

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

lips twitched and I sunk down a little more into the

whispered, a genuine smile

"You need not thank

me, wife."

of the evening had melted away, replaced by a sense of intimacy and relaxation we both needed. The world outside

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

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but I could hear them snickering, laughing, gossiping about me. About

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

vision. How could it be? How could everything have gone so wrong? Tsuneo... my Tsuneo... he was supposed to be mine. I knew

Empress.

His wife!

chairs. I clawed through a tapestry I'd

"That little bitch!"

as Tsuneo's wife. I'd taken care 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 me.

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