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.

already knew I was lying and it 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 the estate has communal bathing arrangements, I

frowned at that. He looked genuinely confused, or maybe troubled. Then he

"That's terrible."

wanted to try it, so this is

leaning my head back against the stone

and I cracked an eye open. His eyes were bright with

that made it hard to reconcile the fact that

proper

at the thought. He

like that, but...

away. "You were

settle down," he

fairy springs, hidden. deep within

magical pool, surrounded by nature,

realm, we will go to these Jaki Baths

lips twitched and I sunk down a

a genuine smile playing on my

"You need not thank

me, wife."

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 world outside seemed

in my ears, a maddening drumbeat

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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

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

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

Empress.

His wife!

cathartic. I screamed and threw 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 the floor. Sheets ripped and shredded, yet it did nothing for the tempest raging within me. This wasn't fair! It

"That little bitch!"

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 queen in

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