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."

really.

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

that. He looked genuinely confused, or

"That's terrible."

always wanted to try it, so this is a

my head back against the stone and closing my

open. His

that made it hard to reconcile the fact that

a proper honeymoon," he

eyes bulged at the thought. He

like that, but... I

away. "You

things settle down," he

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

magical pool, surrounded by nature,

are in your realm, we will go to

twitched and I sunk down a little more into the bath

whispered, a genuine smile playing

"You need not thank

me, wife."

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 we both needed. The world

a maddening drumbeat that drowned out everything else as

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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 me and

to boil over. I stormed into my chambers, slamming the heavy oak door

hot, streamed down my face, blurring 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 children that we were destined to rule side-by-side. I was destined to be

Empress.

His wife!

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

"That little bitch!"

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

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