Evil Duke, Please Be Gentle!

All the nerves of his forehead started to pop as he looked at her and in the end he could not help but scold her,

"Evangeline! Are you a pig! How much are you going to eat! It has been so much time yet you are still eating! Did you forget that we have to leave in half an hour?"

"....." she was sure that not only five minutes had passed since she had started eating. She looked at the half eaten bread in her plate and the eggs with a reluctant look before she let them go and stood up.

"I apologize for keeping you waiting, my lord. I am done and if you are ready we can leave now!" she stood up and replied to him in a professional tone but one again was stunned to see that strange smile on his face.

It looked like his jaws were in pain or his lips had turned stiff due to the unnecessary stretch. He looked like he had pain in his teeth.

Was it because he had drunk too much last night? Was that why he was so moody too? 

"My lord, are you feeling okay?" she asked in a bit cautious manner as she looked at him with worried eyes.

"I am perfectly fine. What would happen to me?" to convince her, he only stretched his lips further but that had a completely different effect than he had expected. Her smile froze and she looked like she had seen a ghost.

She looked away with fear and nodded her head, "then.. Then we shall leave!"

With that turned and ran from there as if demons were chasing her leaving the confused Leo back,

"Why is everyone in the mood to run today!" he muttered with a slight irritation in his tone but followed her towards the carriage without another complaint.

"Relax Leo! You can not lose your temper so easily! You have to show her that you are a warm person too. You will only smile warmly and win her heart!"  he muttered as he walked out of the room, trying his best to calm the anger.

Once he reached the garden she was already sitting in the carriage.

"My lord!" the knights bowed their head as they sat on the horses, when his brows were furrowed, 

"I am going to the father's office. I will try to come today but if it is late then you handle the training today!" the knight bowed his head and left from there.

"Are we going to the ministry, my lord?" asked the coachman and he nodded his head and walked into the carriage once again with a bright smile on his face. But as soon as his eyes fell on the girl, the smile on his face froze and it turned ugly as his whole face turned dark.

Leo looked at the girl that had already been asleep. Her eyes were closed and her breathing had turned even. She looked innocent and cute like a baby. But the problem was if she would keep on sleeping then how would he show her his sunny side.

He wanted to shout at her and wake her up but he knew that she would be furious and glare at him all the way, if he did that.

The girl had laid on the other side of the seat and was sleeping on the plush cushion without any care in the world. While he was fidgeting on his seat as if it was made up of pins and needles.

"Cough cough" he coughed a few times to wake the girl up. The sleeping beauty was lost in her dreamland.

"Cough cough cough!"

"My lord, shall I stop the carriage and serve you water first!?" asked the coachman when Leo did not stop coughing even when a few minutes had passed.

"...." he looked at the sleeping girl with a frown! Even the coachman could hear him! How can she sleep so soundly then?

"There is no need! I am fine! Ride fast, I have some urgent work there!" he responded and the coachman could only nod and continue to drive.

Leo looked at the girl and then at the jar of water in the carriage and his eyes twinkled. He picked up the jar and let it go.

"Paakkk!" the sound of the jar falling filled the carriage that even the coachman trembled.

"What happened, are you alright my lord?" asked the man with worry again while the eyes of Leo were scanning the girl who had even started to snore a bit but she did not even frown or winced and continued to sleep as if she did not hear a thing.

"Nothing! The jar of the water fell when i was trying to drink to water due to the fast speed of other carriage!" The voice was so cold that the man trembled. 

"..." he had not even increased the speed which the Leo had asked.

"Shall I slow the speed then, my lord?" asked the man in a hesitant voice but it only increased the frown on his face.

He was looking darker than the bottom of the pot that had been left on the stove for a long time.

"No! Didn't i tell you that i have an urgent work in the ministry and drive faster!?" he asked in a colder tone.

The face of the coachman turned so ugly that he was neither able to laugh or cry. He did not know what had he done wrong to get the ire of the sire.

"Yes, my lord!" was all he could say when he heard him so.

Evan who was acting to be asleep in the corner shivered when she heard his cold voice. She was right! The man had gone insane! If he was tormenting so much to the coachman what he would have done with her when he had found that she was acting to be asleep!

"You are not only a pig but a sloth too! What kind of person sleeps like you!"

"Pak!"