Chapter 588

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I AM YOUR ALLY KATHERINE "Shhh," he brings a finger to his lips, signaling for me to stay quiet.

limmediately press my lips together.

The Duke closes the door and steps closer, his brow furrowed as his gaze drops to my chest.

I watch as he sits on the edge of the bed, my mind a whirlwind of memories, my urge to bombard him with a thousand questions barely contained.

He leans toward me, and I shudder at the closeness, his deep, low voice pouring into my ear.

"Don't call me by my title here.

No one can know our identities.

We're just a married couple who were attacked by bandits on the road," he whispers, and I swallow hard, nodding.

He straightens slightly, his piercing blue eyes too close.

Istart to feel nervous not just because of his proximity, but because I might have done something unnatural to heal myself.

Did the Duke notice my magic? He couldnt haveotherwise, hed be tying me to a tree and setting me on fire like a torch.

"I...

thank you for saving me, Du I mean, E...

say, tasting his name

feels strange, yet oddly

gaze lowers, and his fingers hover near my nightgown, stopping just millimeters from the buttons, clearly intending to

He hesitates, then pulls

me up and changed my clothes?

clothes?" I

you were covered

down

lady of the house gave me that gown for

between us feels tense and

unable

studies me with

me we were attacked, that

claims it wasnt as severe as it seemed, just a superficial

hand to my

dagger nearly piercing my heartbut

thinks that rather

was the laborer from that grain silo," I frown, forcing

knew about the theftwhich confirms that you are being robbed."

far more serious than

who attacked us were

my own land..."

carriage? If you sensed danger, you

was never that far away." "Iwas pulled

a hidden trapdoor in

expression darkens, turning stormy

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