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

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

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

"That's terrible."

wanted to try it, so this is a pretty good close

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

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

it hard to reconcile the fact that he'd killed

proper honeymoon," he began, then

at the

that, but... I

away.

settle down," he

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 have magical properties, and the setting is...

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

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

down a little more

whispered, a genuine smile playing

"You need not thank

me, wife."

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

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

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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 me now. How everything between me and Tsuneo had

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

everything have gone so wrong? Tsuneo... my Tsuneo...

Empress.

His wife!

chairs. I clawed through a tapestry I'd had since I was child. I couldn't stop until every surface was

"That little bitch!"

Tsuneo's wife. I'd taken care of him 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

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