'I have never been this humiliated before. Without my honor as a Lukewater at stake, I would not have come out to meet this annoying girl like this. But as a Lukewater, I cannot let her show me up.'
His frustration was mounting, and his internal conflict was becoming more pronounced.
Daidus Lukewater, the next duke of the Celceris kingdom, looked at the tired-looking girl before him.
He had asked around about her, but all he had gotten was a name - Layla. She did not even have a family name he could use to distinguish her.
In his eyes, she was a common girl with little to her name. She was the lowest of the low, someone he should not even look toward, or he could get tainted.
He was far above her in power and status. And yet, he had been bested during the last round.
If the round had not ended when it did, he was sure he would have dropped out, which excited him.
