Evil Duke, Please Be Gentle!

"I will be back in an hour. Are you sure that you will be able to take care of Renee alone?" asked Evan as she looked at both of them with a bit of hesitation when Leo asked.

"You are underestimating me too much. I am getting better at taking care of my daughter. So you do not need to worry. Now leave, you had no idea how glad I am that Peter is getting a wife." he said with a joyous look as if he was the one getting married.

Even shook her head. She still did not understand why Leo was so jealous of Peter that he even looked at Carl as if he was a spy.

"Yes, yes, I will be back. It would have been better that you would have come with me too." Leo smiled as he touched the tendril falling on her face and tucked it behind her ears.

"We will go together for the marriage. Aunt Martha had only invited you so that you can help both of them in connecting. If I would come, I am sure the marriage would break up." she glared at the chuckling man who was laughing at his own lame joke and elbowed on his chest.

"Ouch! Do you know you are being too dominating these days!" he told her with a pained look but she only rolled her eyes.

He was so bad at acting that even she would not believe it.

She took a deep breath, adjusted her clothes before leaving the room.

Carl was already waiting for her at the door. He stared at her with a look of disapproval as if telling her that she had taken ages in coming out. What was she even doing there?

She ignored his snide look as she bonked his head.

"We are getting late. Why are you staring at it while standing there? Start walking." his mouth opened wide. He could not believe that she was blaming him for being late when he was the one waiting for her for ages.

"Alright, alright, how is your sister in law? Do you like her?" she asked changing the expressions of her face when he scoffed but his face softened.

"Yes, mother had chosen her for brother but brother was adamant that he did not want to marry. Mother had done all the efforts. I do not understand how you could change his decision and you even asked me to bring Mary there in advance. What if my brother's words would hurt her?" he sighed.

He is only nine now so he did not understand what his family was thinking. Especially his brother but he feels that Evan is taking it too lightly.

As they walked away, Leo shook his head. He rubbed the cheeks of his daughter with affection.

"You know Renee, I am a petty man. When it comes to the fact that Peter knows more about my wife and had shared the childhood with her upto the limit where the town thought that they were childhood sweethearts, I always wanted to beat the man." he said with a sigh as he hugged her.

"I hope that you do not have any boy around you when you grow up. Only I will be the one who will know everything about you and you will confide everything only to me." he said as he held the girl higher and then looked into her eyes.

The little girl gave him a bare gum smile when his heart melted. "Awww" dumbstruck gaze could be seen on his face.

No one would believe that he was that cold man who had made every woman cry with that look on his face.

Best

"You are the best, my daughter. I knew that you were the only one who would listen to me." he kissed her cheeks with a happy and contented expression on his face.

But in an instant his eyes turned cold when he felt the presence of someone else in the room.

From serving knighthood and war for so long, his senses were too heightened when it came to danger.

He scanned the room but there was no one yet he felt a stranger presence and the desire to kill from that person.

"Who are you?" he asked in a cold voice as his grip on his child tightened. He was about to hide her but he was not sure which place would be safer than his arms.

He stared all around the room when he heard the sound of chuckle from behind.

"Living as a human you have better than i thought, i was not expecting you to know about me this sooner." the man laughed as he came forward and finally Leo was able to see him.

To his shock, the man had a striking resemblance to him but his eyes had a hint of red in the darkness.

"Hello cousin, I thought that you were dead when the war happened but who would have thought that aunt would hide you so well." the man had an evil smirk on his face as she looked at Leo and then at the little girl in his arms,

"And you even have a family now. Just look at the girl, she is so pretty.  I wonder how you will feel when she dies.. Oh my, what a tragedy." he placed one of his hands on his chest and said in a dramatic tone as he looked into his eyes with a provoking look.

His eyes were so sinister, so dark but more than that Alex could feel a strange aura coming from the man.

He remembered her mother telling him that their family had strong powers. What if this man had powers he would not be able to handle.

"What happened leo? That is the name your human family gave you right? Where are they? As your blood relative it is my duty to thank them. Where is your wife, Leo?"