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

off, meeting his gaze. He looked at 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

looked genuinely confused, or maybe troubled. Then he sat

"That's terrible."

"ve always wanted to try it, so this

against the stone and closing my

eye open. His eyes were bright with excitement.

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

a proper honeymoon,"

at

but... I wouldn't

away. "You

things settle down," he

hidden. deep within the mountains to the south. The water is said to have magical properties, and the setting is...

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

in your realm, we will go to

down a little more

a genuine smile playing

"You need not thank

me, wife."

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

roared in my ears, a maddening drumbeat that drowned out everything

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jumped out of my way, but I could hear them snickering, laughing,

threatening to boil over. I stormed into my chambers,

streamed down my face, blurring my vision. How could it be? How could everything have gone so wrong? Tsuneo... my Tsuneo... he

Empress.

His wife!

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. My pillows on the floor. Sheets ripped and shredded, yet it did

"That little bitch!"

them and their petty gossip. I made the lazy servants do exactly what they should be doing. The king loved me. The entire palace bent to my will. I was crown princess and queen in every

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