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.

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

"That's terrible."

try it, so this is a pretty good close

leaning my head back against the stone and

I cracked an eye open. His eyes were

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

proper honeymoon," he

at

that, but... I wouldn't be

looked away. "You were

things settle

springs, hidden. deep within

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

we are in your realm, we will go to these

down a little

whispered, a genuine smile playing on my lips.

"You need not thank

me, wife."

we 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

ears, a maddening drumbeat that drowned out everything else

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

into my

my vision. 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

Empress.

His wife!

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

"That little bitch!"

him while he was in his coma. I was at his side. I spoke with the concubines and managed them and their

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