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.

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 communal bathing arrangements, I never bothered to use them. It was pretty obvious that most of my

He looked genuinely confused, or maybe

"That's terrible."

try it, so this is a

against

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

to reconcile the fact that he'd killed his

had a proper honeymoon," he

eyes bulged at

like that, but...

away. "You were

settle down," he

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

thrill shot through me. The idea of bathing in a magical pool,

next time we are in your realm, we will go to these Jaki Baths

twitched and I sunk down a little more into the bath

a genuine smile playing on my lips.

"You need not thank

me, wife."

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

in my ears, a maddening drumbeat that drowned out everything

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

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

Tsuneo... my Tsuneo... he was supposed to be mine. I knew

Empress.

His wife!

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

"That little bitch!"

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

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