The Dragon God's Bride Asked for a Divorce novel · Chapter 4 of 24

Chapter 4: The Plainest Daughter

Shizuku wrote the fourth request in the morning, and it said only, "Divorce. Still."

He read it at the table with his tea going cold.

"Denied," he said. "That was shorter."

"I'm saving my ink."

"For what?"

"For tonight," she said.

The teacup stopped halfway to his mouth.

Shizuku felt her face go hot to the ears, but she had said it and she wasn't going to take it back.

She wanted the answer about the east wing, yes.

She also wanted him.

She was twenty years old, and as far as Kuramizu was concerned, she had been dead for four days.

She was tired of being afraid of the one thing in this whole world that she was actually curious about.

His bedroom was at the top of the palace, in a round room with a dome of pearl glass.

Through the dome, high above, the lake was a deep blue sky with a wobbling moon in it.

The bed was low and wide and covered in white silk.

He stood at the foot with his hands clasped, as stiff as a groom at a wedding.

"You do not have to," he said.

"I know."

"If you want to go back to your room"

"Ryugen."

"Yes."

"Take your clothes off."

He took them off slowly, one layer and then the next, and he never took his eyes from her face.

He was beautiful.

Shizuku was sorry about it, but he was.

He was long and lean and pale, with that old scar across his chest.

Dark jade scales ran down from his hips along the base of his tail.

He was fully hard, and a good deal bigger than she had been braced for.

She swallowed.

"You are staring," he said.

"I'm planning."

A laugh broke out of him, startled and rough.

Then Shizuku took off her own robe.

She stood in front of him, short and broad and plain, in the light of the pearl dome.

She crossed her arms over her chest.

"I should tell you something first," she said.

"Tell me."

"I'm not what you're used to. I'm the plainest girl in Kuramizu. My father once offered a cow and four sacks of rice to any man who would marry me, and nobody took it."

His tail went very still.

"My uncle drew the straws," she said, "and I wasn't a surprise. Nobody ever wanted me. Not for a day. So if you're being kind, or you're lonely, or you're just"

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