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

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

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

"That's terrible."

to try it, so this is a pretty good

sighed, leaning my head back against the stone and closing my

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

to reconcile the fact that he'd

a proper honeymoon," he began, then

eyes bulged at the thought. He

but... I wouldn't

looked away. "You were

settle

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

magical pool, surrounded

we will go to these

sunk down a little more into the bath with

genuine smile playing on my lips.

"You need not thank

me, wife."

evening had melted away, replaced by a sense of

roared in my ears, a maddening drumbeat that drowned out everything else

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snickering, laughing, gossiping about me. About what that human woman had said. How the king was treating me now. How everything

veins, threatening to boil over. I stormed into my chambers, slamming the heavy oak door

could everything have gone so wrong? Tsuneo... my Tsuneo... he was supposed to be

Empress.

His wife!

my mind. I whirled around with a shriek of fury, knocking over a delicate porcelain vase in the process. The sound of shattering echoed through the room was almost cathartic. I screamed and threw chairs. I clawed through a tapestry

"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

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