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

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 arrangements, I never bothered to use them. It was pretty obvious

He looked genuinely confused, or maybe troubled.

"That's terrible."

wanted to try it,

back against

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

reconcile the fact that he'd killed his brother

haven't had a proper honeymoon," he

eyes bulged at

that, but... I

away. "You

settle

place in mind, 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

magical pool, surrounded by nature, sounded worlds better than bathing with

in your realm, we will go to these Jaki Baths so

lips twitched and I sunk down a little

genuine smile playing on my lips.

"You need not thank

me, wife."

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

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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

into my chambers, slamming the heavy oak

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!

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

"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 loved me. The entire palace bent to my will. I was crown princess and queen in every way that

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