There were many intimate nights similar to that as the couple settled into intimacy they had always dreamed about. Even without going to the point of no return, there was plenty for them to explore.
However, one thing ate away at Leonor until she decided to bring it up to Desmond.
He mentioned before the looks he got from maids and the way Gideon couldn't look him directly in the eye when he was caught in nightclothes leaving his wife's room.
Everyone in the estate was getting used to the new relationship the couple was forming.
It made Leonor realize that wasn't how it should be. The duke should be the one most comfortable in his estate but that was seldom how it was.
He should be able to wake up as slow as he wanted and prepare for the day in a comfortable environment where he didn't have to see the speculative gazes of maids and the butler first thing.
