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

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

genuinely confused, or maybe

"That's terrible."

it,

leaning my head back against the stone and closing my

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

to reconcile the fact that

had a proper honeymoon," he began,

at the thought.

but...

looked away.

settle down," he

deal. There are these... fairy springs, hidden. deep within the mountains to the south. The water is said

magical pool, surrounded by

go to these Jaki

a little more into the

sounds incredible," I whispered, a genuine smile

"You need not thank

me, wife."

of the water. The tension of the evening had melted away,

in my ears, a maddening drumbeat

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way, but I could hear them snickering, laughing, gossiping about me. About what that human woman had said. How the king was treating me now. How everything

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

and hot, streamed down my face, blurring my vision. How could it 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

Empress.

His wife!

through the 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!"

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. The entire

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