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.

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 the estate has communal bathing arrangements, I never bothered to use them. It was pretty

confused, or maybe troubled. Then

"That's terrible."

try it, so this is

head back against the

and I cracked an eye open. His

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

proper

bulged at

that, but... I wouldn't

away.

things settle down," he

are these... fairy springs, hidden. deep within the mountains to the south. The water is said to have magical properties, and the setting

a magical pool, surrounded by nature, sounded

time we are in your realm, we will go to these Jaki

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

sounds incredible," I whispered, a genuine smile playing on my

"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

roared in my ears, a maddening drumbeat that drowned out everything

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my way, but I could hear them snickering, laughing, gossiping about me. About what that human

boil over. I stormed into my chambers,

traitorous and 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

Empress.

His wife!

face flashed through my mind. 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 child. I couldn't stop

"That little bitch!"

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. 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

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