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.

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 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 family hated me."

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

"That's terrible."

wanted to try it, so

against the stone and closing my

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

that made it hard to reconcile the fact

had a proper

at the

like that, but...

looked away. "You were

settle down," he

like a great deal. There are these... fairy springs, hidden. deep within the mountains

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

perhaps... the next time we are in your realm, we will go to these Jaki Baths so you have

sunk down a little more into

a genuine smile playing on my lips.

"You need not thank

me, wife."

water. The tension of the evening had melted away, replaced

my ears, a maddening drumbeat

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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

stormed into my chambers, slamming

so wrong? Tsuneo... my Tsuneo... he was supposed to be mine. I knew since we were children that we were destined to rule side-by-side.

Empress.

His wife!

sound of 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

"That little bitch!"

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

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