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.

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.

looked genuinely confused, or

"That's terrible."

it, so this is

leaning my head back against

and I cracked an eye open. His eyes were bright

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

had a proper honeymoon," he

at the

but... I

away. "You were

things settle

will like a great deal. There are these... fairy springs, hidden. deep within the mountains to the south. The water is said to have magical

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

are in your realm, we will go to these Jaki Baths

and I sunk down a little more into

I whispered, a genuine smile playing on

"You need not thank

me, wife."

sat in 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

roared in my ears, a maddening drumbeat that

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way, but I could hear them snickering, laughing, gossiping about me. About what that human woman had said. How the king was treating me

I stormed into my

be? How could everything have gone so wrong? Tsuneo... my Tsuneo... he was supposed to be mine. I knew

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. My pillows on the floor. Sheets ripped and shredded, yet it did nothing for the tempest raging within me.

"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 me. The entire palace bent to my will. I was crown princess and

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