Chapter 51
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Morgan
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.
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
looked genuinely confused, or maybe troubled. Then
"That's terrible."
wanted to try it, so this is a
leaning my head back against the
an eye open. His eyes were
to reconcile the fact
haven't had a proper honeymoon," he began,
bulged at the thought. He
but... I wouldn't
looked away. "You
things settle down," he
hidden. deep within the mountains to the south. The water
of bathing in a magical pool, surrounded by nature,
go to these Jaki Baths so you have something to compare
and I sunk down a little more
I whispered, a genuine
"You need not thank
me, wife."
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
roared in my ears, a maddening drumbeat that drowned
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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 now. How everything
stormed into my
my face, blurring my vision. How could it be? How could everything have gone so wrong? Tsuneo... my Tsuneo... he
Empress.
His wife!
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
"That little bitch!"
them and their petty gossip. I made the lazy servants do exactly what they should
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