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

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

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

"That's terrible."

try it, so

against the stone

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

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

a proper honeymoon," he began,

bulged at the

but...

looked away. "You were

settle down,"

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

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

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

lips twitched and I sunk down a little more into the bath with

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

"You need not thank

me, wife."

comfortable silence, the only sound the gentle lapping of the water. The tension of the evening had melted away, replaced by a sense of intimacy and relaxation we both needed. The world

maddening drumbeat that drowned out everything else

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jumped out of my way, but I could hear them snickering, laughing, gossiping about me. About what that human woman had said. How the

boil over. I stormed into my chambers, slamming the

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 to rule side-by-side. I was destined

Empress.

His wife!

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 had since I was child. I couldn't stop until every surface was bare and overturned.

"That little bitch!"

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.

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