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.

like it was my fault that my family were jerk No one ever want to go with me when I had time, I

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

"That's terrible."

wanted to try it, so this is a

leaning my head back against the stone

an eye open. His eyes were bright with excitement. He

to reconcile the

proper honeymoon,"

eyes bulged at

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

looked away.

things settle

a great deal. There are these... fairy springs, hidden. deep within the mountains to the south. The

in a magical pool, surrounded by nature,

will go to these Jaki

down a little more

sounds incredible," I whispered, a genuine smile playing on my lips. "Thanks,

"You need not thank

me, wife."

lapping of the water. The tension of the evening had melted away, replaced by a

in my ears, a maddening drumbeat that drowned

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them snickering, laughing, gossiping about me. About what that human woman had said. How the

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

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

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

"That little bitch!"

and managed them and their petty gossip. I made the lazy servants do exactly what they should be doing. The

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