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

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

looked genuinely confused, or maybe troubled.

"That's terrible."

shrugged. "ve always wanted to try it, so this is a pretty good

my head back against the stone

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

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

had a proper honeymoon," he began, then

eyes bulged at the

but...

away. "You were

settle down," he

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

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

twitched and I sunk down a little more into the bath

a genuine smile playing on my

"You need not thank

me, wife."

we sat in comfortable silence, the 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

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

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Servants jumped out of my way, but I could hear them snickering, laughing, gossiping about me. About what

into my chambers, slamming the heavy oak door with a resounding thud that

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 side-by-side. I was destined

Empress.

His wife!

was almost cathartic. I screamed and threw chairs. I clawed through a tapestry I'd had since I was child.

"That little bitch!"

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. The entire palace bent to my will. I was crown princess and queen in every

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