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.

trailed off, 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 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

that. He looked genuinely confused, or maybe troubled.

"That's terrible."

try it, so this is a pretty good close

my head back against the stone

open. His eyes were bright with excitement. He grinned

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

had a proper honeymoon,"

at

like that, but... I

away.

settle

think you will like a great deal. There are these... fairy springs, hidden. deep within the mountains to the

thrill shot through me. The idea of bathing in a magical pool, surrounded by nature, sounded worlds better

perhaps... the next time we are in your realm, we will go to these Jaki Baths so you have something to compare it

lips twitched and I sunk down a little more into the bath with a

sounds incredible," I whispered, a genuine

"You need not thank

me, wife."

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

ears, a maddening

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Servants jumped out of my way, but I could hear them snickering, laughing, gossiping about me. About what that human woman had said. How the king was treating

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

everything have gone so wrong? Tsuneo... my Tsuneo... he was supposed to be mine. I knew since we were children that we were

Empress.

His wife!

shattering echoed 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

"That little bitch!"

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

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