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

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 that most of my

at that. He looked genuinely confused, or

"That's terrible."

it, so this

leaning my head back against the

and I cracked an eye open. His

a way that made it hard to reconcile the fact

had a proper honeymoon," he began, then

bulged at the thought.

but... I wouldn't be

away. "You

things settle down,"

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,

through me. The idea of bathing in a magical pool, surrounded by

in your realm, we will go to

lips twitched and I sunk down a little more into the

incredible," I whispered, a genuine smile playing on my lips.

"You need not thank

me, wife."

in comfortable silence, the only sound the gentle lapping of the water. The tension of the evening had melted

maddening

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

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

How could it be? How could everything have gone so wrong? Tsuneo... my Tsuneo... he was supposed to be mine. I knew since we

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 bare and overturned. My pillows on the floor. Sheets ripped and shredded, yet it did nothing for the tempest raging within

"That little bitch!"

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

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