Evil Duke, Please Be Gentle!

"You can stop the carriage here. We have almost reached the place!" Carl who was still peeping out of the window all this time shouted with excitement and Evan peeked out of the window too. The rest of the journey was so silent that it felt awkward especially when Leo was looking at them with a death glare.

Confirming that the girl had not denied or said otherwise, Leo knocked the wall of the carriage and muttered, "stop the carriage." 

The carriage slowed down and soon came to a halt. Carl was the first to jump out of the carriage with a chuckle and then Leo walked out.

Like a gentleman, he turned and forwarded his hand this time too. Evan blinked! She clearly remembered that it was only the second time that he was assisting her in coming out of the carriage.

Last time when they were with Olivia and Raymond and now. So, that meant that he only behaved gentlemanly where there were others to notice. Or else he did not pay any head to her even if she broke her bones or hit her head with the walls of the carriage.

Since that is the case, why should she not take the most of it.

"My lord, I seem to have sprained my ankle while moving. Could you help me in walking too!" she muttered in a sweet voice with a pleading face as she turned and fluttered her eyelashes like a damsel in distress.

She knew that he knew too well that she was only acting. But she wanted to annoy him the way he did her all the time. 

His eyes narrowed on her face and a triumphant smile formed on her face as if she won a treasure. She was sure that he would snap now and his gentle,menaly act would fall.

But unexpectedly, he passed her a warm smile. It was such a sweet smile yet she felt goosebumps all over her body, as if the smile was telling her that her end was near. 

"That.. I was the only.." ``Joking my lord.." died in her throat when he pulled her with a force and she lost her balance and fell straight on his chest while his both hands were wrapped around her waist tightly as if he wanted her to be one with him.

Her feet were not touching the ground and it was dangling in the air while her hands instinctively wrapped around his neck as she closed her eyes, afraid that she would fall from the carriage. 

"You are such a scaredy cat even when you're the one to challenge me always!" he chuckled and whispered in her ears.

His soft musky smell and his baritone voice that could leave any woman trembling echoes in her ears when his soft breathes tickled her cheeks.

She could feel his taut chest when her breast moved up and down as she took a few deep breaths to calm down again. They were too close! Even closer than the time he had the princess carry her in the past.

"That.. i! I was just joking.. Joking! Haha.. I can walk perfectly fine. So, you can let me go!" Why did she feel that if he teased her, she would suffer the loss but even if she was the one who was teasing him, she would suffer the loss in the end.

That was so unfair! She muttered under her breath but galred at the man who was still holding her like she was his lover. Her bosom was slightly above his chest and if he lowered his head, his face would be.. Gosh! That was so embarrassing! 

She could not believe that he was holding her like that!

"My lord!" She looked at him with a crying face. In the name of the god, they were on the road and three pairs of eyes were still looking at them. Did he not feel embarrassed at all?

While she was having the thought of cracking the earth so that they both would fall in a hole and hide themselves. His eyes were fixed on her crimson face. She was looking like the blood would drip out of her face any moment.

She still did not know why he was not letting her go when he should. Her warm and supple skin was so soft as if it was melting under his touch. 

Her hot breaths were increasing the heat inside his body that he knew if he did not let her go then he would lose control. But he still did not want to let go of her.

All this time he had felt a strange annoyance that he could not even explain himself. But now that she was in his arms, he felt relieved as if that suffocating feeling had started to leave his body.

Since childhood, he had never been the type that had felt anger or jealous of others over petty matters. Then why was he being so irritated when he knew that Raymond or Martin had done nothing!

Today he had lost his composure so many times that he had even forgotten the count, yet he felt that this moment was perfect and worth the irritation he had faced all day.

"My lord, would you let me go now?" her voice was lower than the mosquitoes as she continued to hold his neck for her dear life.

He could feel her annoyance and embarrassment and he could not help but feel that she was looking so cute and adorable while behaving like that.

When she realized that pleading did not work, she opened her eyes and glared at the man with her narrowed eyes but it only brought a smirk on his face.

He finally raised his head and looked straight into her eyes and asking in an innocent voice

"Hmm, how could I do that? You have sprained your ankle and I could not ask an injured person to walk by herself could i?"