I was walking along the hallway towards the front room of the house. The duke was walking next to me after leaving Dr Forrester to try and help my grandmother.
After overhearing the duke and the doctor discuss my grandmother’s poor health, I was keen to raise it with the duke, but would he be annoyed at me for eavesdropping on him and the doctor’s conversation. Either way, I had o know how bad things were. I had only just found her, my chest ached at the thought of losing her again so soon.
When we reached the doors to the front room, the duke stepped ahead to open the doors for me to enter first. He followed me in and closed the doors behind us. Then without a word he pulled me into his chest and held me close, his arms tightened round me as he leaned down to breath me in. I never spok
