Shadow was already gone when I returned, and for the next day, I had stayed in my chambers. Recovering from my punishment.
The guard had generously brought food and ice cubes for my swollen knee... Probably for the eye too.
He’d also enlightened me a little about the duke’s sudden return. I didn’t want to have him prolong his visit and so I had not even asked where the duke had been, or why he left unnoticed in the first place.
That is why today, I am going to ask the duke himself.
I exhaled while gaping at the door before me. My back relaxed as I had done so, and I felt the residue of courage left in me slowly pile up.
I then knocked on the doors, narrowing my eyes while holding my breath. Hoping no one answers me.
I would either encounter the princess, or the duke, or both of
