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

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

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

"That's terrible."

to try it, so this

leaning my head back against the

eye open. His eyes were bright with excitement. He grinned

reconcile the fact that he'd

haven't had a proper

bulged at the thought. He

like that, but... I

away.

settle down," he

you will like a great deal. There are these... fairy springs, hidden. deep within the mountains to the south. The water is

idea of bathing in a magical pool, surrounded by nature, sounded worlds better than bathing with half of my

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

lips twitched and I sunk down a little

whispered, a genuine

"You need not thank

me, wife."

the evening had melted away,

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

into my chambers, slamming the heavy oak

down my face, blurring my vision. How could it be? How could everything have gone so wrong? Tsuneo... my Tsuneo... he was supposed to be mine. I knew since we were children

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

"That little bitch!"

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 should be doing. The king loved

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