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.

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

looked genuinely confused, or maybe

"That's terrible."

wanted to try it, so this is a

against the stone and closing my

open. His eyes were bright with

it hard to reconcile the fact that

proper honeymoon,"

eyes bulged at the

but...

looked away. "You were

settle down,"

a place in mind, I think you will like a great deal. There are these... fairy springs, hidden. deep

of bathing in a magical pool, surrounded by

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

sunk down a little more

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

"You need not thank

me, wife."

the evening had melted away, replaced by a

in my ears, a maddening

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laughing,

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

and hot, streamed 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!

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

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