'Gentlemen are prone to fornicate. So, that's the reason why Maverick even did so on our supposed wedding night!'
Maxine was getting more annoyed than expected after Duke James uttered those words.
She took a step back, ready to escape the man's reach. "Your Grace, I would rather prefer to be in my bed now. The other ladies must now wish to strangle me."
"I thought that is one of your reasons for approaching me, Kera," Duke James raised an eyebrow, "That is, making them jealous."
Maxine chuckled and then responded, "Of course it was, however, I must have underrated their expression of a Duke being interested in me."
As Maxine stared at the Duke, she noticed his attention was captured by something else. She traced his sight and her eyes landed upon a woman in black cloak coming out from the gaming room situated at the far end of the bar.
Maxine could not make out the woman's face because it was shadowed by the hood of the cloak over her face.
