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.

family were jerk No one ever

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

"That's terrible."

"ve always wanted to try it, so this is a pretty good

back against the stone

I cracked an eye open. His eyes

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

a proper honeymoon," he began, then

bulged at the thought.

but... I

away. "You were

settle down," he

deal. There are these... fairy springs, hidden. deep within the mountains to the south. The water is said to

me. The idea of bathing in a magical pool,

perhaps... the next time we are in your realm, we will go to these

twitched and I sunk down a little more into

a genuine smile playing on my

"You need not thank

me, wife."

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 outside seemed to fade away.

my ears, a maddening

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

stormed into my chambers, slamming the

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 that we were destined to rule side-by-side. I was destined

Empress.

His wife!

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

"That little bitch!"

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

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