Chapter 39
In the Matsuda manor’s grand meeting chamber, the newly installed and self-declared head of the Matsuda family, Lord Shingo Matsuda, idly swirled a bit of the sake brewed for New Year’s Eve banquet in a jade-green porcelain cup. He was in an extremely good mood today. He usually was after seeing his enemies made to grovel at his feet and throwing them into the dungeons. “Must you do that, my lord?” purred Kikue as she sensually leaned against him. “That is because there are people who don’t know their place, my dear. And the task of reminding them must naturally fall on me,” he replied, an arm around her shoulders. Lady Chiyo pretended that her husband’s shocking display of debauchery didn’t exist as she sat next t
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