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.

He looked genuinely confused, or maybe troubled.

"That's terrible."

to try it, so this is a

against

open. His

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

had a proper honeymoon," he

bulged at the thought.

but... I wouldn't

away.

settle down,"

fairy springs, hidden. deep within the mountains to the south. The water is said to have magical

bathing in a magical pool, surrounded by nature, sounded worlds better than bathing with half of

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

twitched and I sunk down a little more into the bath with

sounds incredible," I whispered, a genuine smile

"You need not thank

me, wife."

a while, 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 intimacy and relaxation we both needed. The

ears, a maddening drumbeat that drowned out everything else as

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down the hall away from the dining hall toward my room. Servants jumped 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 Tsuneo

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

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

Empress.

His wife!

I whirled around 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

"That little bitch!"

years, I had been as good as Tsuneo's wife. I'd taken care of him while he was in his coma. I was at his side. I spoke with the concubines and managed them and their petty gossip.

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