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.

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

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 close

against the stone and closing

open. His eyes

to reconcile the fact that he'd killed his brother

a proper honeymoon," he began,

bulged at

but... I wouldn't be

away. "You

settle down," he

are these... fairy springs, hidden. deep within the mountains to

through me. The idea of bathing in a magical pool, surrounded

in your realm, we will go to these Jaki Baths so you have

a little

sounds incredible," I whispered, a genuine smile

"You need not thank

me, wife."

the gentle lapping of the water. The tension of the evening

my ears, a maddening

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

consuming, pulsed through my veins, threatening to boil over. I stormed into my chambers, slamming the heavy oak

wrong? Tsuneo... my Tsuneo... he was

Empress.

His wife!

with a shriek of fury, 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

"That little bitch!"

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 queen in every way that

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