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. It's

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

genuinely confused, or maybe

"That's terrible."

wanted to try it, so this is

against the

cracked an eye open. His eyes were bright

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

a proper honeymoon,"

at

like that, but...

looked away. "You

settle down,"

springs, hidden. deep within the mountains to

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

we will go to these Jaki Baths so you have something

a little more into the bath

whispered, a genuine smile playing on

"You need not thank

me, wife."

gentle lapping of the water. The tension of the evening had melted away, replaced by a

a maddening drumbeat that drowned out everything

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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

my chambers, slamming the

Tsuneo... my Tsuneo... he was supposed to be mine. I knew since

Empress.

His wife!

was almost cathartic. I screamed and threw chairs. I clawed through a tapestry I'd had since I was child. I couldn't

"That little bitch!"

and their petty gossip. I made the lazy servants do exactly what they should

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