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. It's

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

genuinely confused, or maybe troubled. Then

"That's terrible."

to try it, so this is

my head back against the stone and

cracked an eye open. His eyes were

that made it hard to reconcile the fact that he'd

a proper honeymoon,"

eyes bulged at the thought. He

but...

away. "You

things settle down,"

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

of bathing in a magical pool, surrounded by nature,

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

lips twitched and I sunk down a little more into

I whispered, a genuine smile playing

"You need not thank

me, wife."

evening had melted away, replaced by a sense of intimacy and relaxation we both

roared in my ears, a maddening

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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 had

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

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

Empress.

His wife!

I clawed through a tapestry I'd had since I was child. I

"That little bitch!"

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. I made the lazy servants do

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