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."

really.

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

frowned at that. He looked genuinely confused,

"That's terrible."

try it, so this

back against the stone and closing

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

that made it hard to reconcile the fact that he'd

proper

eyes bulged at the thought.

that, but... I wouldn't

looked away.

things settle down," he

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

idea of bathing in a magical pool, surrounded

perhaps... the next time we are in your realm, we will go to these

a little more into the bath

I whispered, a genuine smile playing on

"You need not thank

me, wife."

of the water. The tension of the evening had melted away, replaced by a sense of intimacy and relaxation

in my ears, a maddening drumbeat that drowned out everything

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I could hear them snickering, laughing, gossiping about me. About what that

and consuming, pulsed through my veins, threatening to boil over. I stormed into my chambers,

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 that we were destined

Empress.

His wife!

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 I'd

"That little bitch!"

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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