Raphael
It was the way she had looked. Indignation written all over her face. Her brown eyes sparkling with anger. Her lips parted as she breathed heavily while giving me a challenge wrapped as a threat. My Duchess has taken my breath away. And it was the only reason that I stood there, still shocked to my core, my mind repeating her words on a loop that she threw at me before she walked out of the room like a queen after chastising her squire, and I didn’t grab her.
Now as I prowled around the estate, with every step my anger worsened. How dare she? Does she have no thought for her own safety? ‘I liked it. All of it.’ Her words echoed in my mind. But she didn’t know what she was talking about. It wasn’t even the half of what I wanted to do to her. Sometimes, all I craved was her bound a
