"Leave us." The duke ordered firmly to Joer who quickly dashed to the bed just to get the food tray on the table.
With one last bow to both Adelard and Cataleya, the maid closed the door before her, wishing that everything would be fine between them. After all she heard about the incident in the palace and it was awful to think that the duke would hurt lady Cataleya.
Cataleya was left staring at the man in whom Budeska had said was her lover in previous life. She can't still wrapped her head around her own reality right now. She thought there will be a lot of time before she will have the chance to come face to face with the duke like this.
"Funny how you seem to rush here without reason when you refused to see me for many days at the tower." Cataleya managed to say, noticing that silence stretched rather longer between them.
