"I don't want to confuse you either you or myself, your grace. Soon you'll have to choose the real daughter over me. I'm Cataleya for now but tomorrow, who knows what my name will be when that name will be cleared."
They continued walking in another stretch of silence until they were near the stairs that the duke stopped from walking. Cataleya halted her steps since she was practically holding his arm. "Your grace?"
"I abhor complicated things but then my thoughts are muddled over the past few weeks." He said.
"Something weighing your chest lately?"She tried making a guess.
"Terribly so." He said.
"I can lend some ears." She offered.
The duke just smiled at that which surprise Cataleya since it was the first time she saw a sincere one aside from his usual smirking.
"I will when the time comes." He said and turned forward when someone was coming. A maid who also stopped on her spot upon seeing them in a distance.
