Chapter 51
CH51
Morgan
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."
really.
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 the estate has communal bathing arrangements, I never bothered
confused, or maybe troubled.
"That's terrible."
try it, so this
my head back against the stone and
I cracked an eye open. His eyes were bright
made it hard to reconcile the
had a proper honeymoon," he began, then
at the thought.
that, but... I wouldn't be
looked away. "You were
settle
like a great deal. There are these... fairy springs, hidden. deep within the mountains to the south. The water
bathing in a magical pool, surrounded by nature, sounded worlds better than bathing with half
we will go to these Jaki Baths so you have something to
sunk down a
a genuine smile playing on my lips. "Thanks,
"You need not thank
me, wife."
evening had
in 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 the king was treating me
consuming, pulsed through my veins, threatening to boil over. I stormed into my chambers, slamming the heavy oak door with a resounding thud that echoed through
have gone so wrong? Tsuneo... my Tsuneo... he was supposed to be mine.
Empress.
His wife!
and threw chairs. I clawed through a
"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. The king loved me. The
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