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

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

He looked genuinely confused, or maybe troubled. Then he sat

"That's terrible."

try it, so this is a

my head back against the stone

I cracked an eye open. His eyes were bright with excitement. He grinned at

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

a proper honeymoon," he began, then

eyes bulged at the thought. He

but... I wouldn't

away. "You

things settle

you will like a great deal. There are these... fairy springs, hidden. deep within the mountains to the south. The water is said

pool, surrounded

your realm, we will go to

and I sunk down a little more into the bath

I whispered, a genuine smile playing on my

"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

maddening drumbeat that drowned out everything else as

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laughing, gossiping about me. About what that

through my veins, threatening to boil over. I stormed into my chambers, slamming the heavy oak door with a resounding

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

Empress.

His wife!

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 until every surface was bare and overturned. My

"That little bitch!"

good as Tsuneo's 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

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