Evil Duke, Please Be Gentle!

"Arrrghhh" Evan shouted as she was left alone in the room. The confession came out of nowhere and she did not know how to respond to it.

She was sure that she would have looked like a fool when he had asked her for a response. But how could he propose to her just like that!? 

It should be against the law for him to use such a seductive voice. Her knees had trembled and she had almost nodded her head.

But why had she not nodded her head? Did she want to be with him?

To be called the wife of leo! It sounded so dreamy that she did not know if it could really be true. If she would say yes to him.. Would the nobles and society ever accept her. Her mind started to swirl with so many thoughts. She didn't want him to suffer because of her.

What if she was never given equality and was forced to be the concubine later like Eli! When she was not spared even when she was in love with the man for so long and was such a higher noble than how would she be taken as the legal wife.

Her heart sank at that thought and she suddenly felt suffocated. She felt like she could not breathe! No! That would not happen! She would never let that happen!

Why was she even thinking so much negatively? She questioned herself. She was behaving just like the Evan she was before coming to this palace.

She had never realized but she was a silent and negative girl who was always conscious of her every act but these days, she had become more and more free spirited that she had even started to speak whatever she was thinking and she had even started to dream from open eyes.

No! She shook her head to get rid of all the thoughts that had started to turn her head heavy and tried to concentrate on the file again. But the file was blurry. She could not read a single word from it.

No matter how much she concentrated, she could not see a single word or make sense out of it.

"Sigh!" She took a deep breath and closed the files in front of her. 

"It would be better if i eat something first!" she muttered as she stood up and walked towards the door, but when her hands reached the knob, she felt hesitation. She did not want to bump into strange people again and she didn't even want to face Leo too.

She did not know how she would reply to him when he would ask her again.

"Oh lord! What a dilemma!" she cussed her luck and so Leo for making her feel like this.

"Get a grip Evan! You can not hide from him all your life! Can you! So, you better go out and face him!" She gave herself a few brave words as a meal and took a few deep breaths.

When she was sure that she had a grip on her emotions again, she opened the door and walked out of the room.

But before she could take a few steps further, her eyes fell on a long chain of utensils and dishes in front of her. 

The man holding them was completely hidden because he was trying to manage so much in his hands. 

"Who is there?" she recognized this voice even in her dreams and her whole body stiffened listening to it.

All her courageous tasks went into the bin when he came in front of her once again.

"Is it you!?" She was stunned at how he even recognized her when he could not see her and she did not utter a single word.

It would just be a fluke, with that thought, she let it go but she did not understand why he was holding everything by himself. A dozen maids would have come running listening to his one command. They looked at him as if they were dying for his one call!

The thought left a sour taste in her mouth and he felt more annoyed at him. Why had he not proposed to any of them but her? Ha! As if she cared about it! She snorted and decided to turn and leave when she heard his magnetic voice again.

"Come here and help me! I have brought everything you cooked for us! Are you not hungry yet?" The voice was so soft and gentle that she felt goosebumps. She did not know it was her hallucination or he had actually behaved nice with her.

As if the words continued magic, she instinctively moved towards him and held the dish in her hands.

The face that was hidden by the dishes came into her view again when she picked up the front dishes and her whole face turned red just by looking at him.

"What are you thinking in that tiny head of yours?" he raised a brow as he felt that she was looking at him strangely and the way her face was getting redder!

"No.. nothing! Let's go and eat before the food will turn completely cold!" she muttered hastily as she turned and took hasty steps towards the room. The door was already closed by her and they both had their hands full with food.

She was walking so hastily and he was following her from behind when she stopped and he almost bumped into her before stopping but the dishes had touched her back and she flinched.

She felt like her dress loosened and her body instinctively turned straighter but the feeling went away. She had felt the same when she was cooking in the kitchen too and she had checked many times but her dress was just fine so she shook her head and let the matter go.

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