When you visit our website, if you give your consent, we will use cookies to allow us to collect data for aggregated statistics to improve our service and remember your choice for future visits. Cookie Policy & Privacy Policy
Dear Reader, we use the permissions associated with cookies to keep our website running smoothly and to provide you with personalized content that better meets your needs and ensure the best reading experience. At any time, you can change your permissions for the cookie settings below.
If you would like to learn more about our Cookie, you can click on Privacy Policy.
As I looked up at the duke, awaiting his response, a moment of doubt crossed my mind. Had I overstepped once again? Would he see my actions as too bold? All I wanted to do was give him what I knew he needed from me. And if I was being completely honest with myself, maybe I needed this from him too. No matter how much I hated to admit it, the duke, with all his commands and demands, gave me a sense of home and stability that I had never had before. I had been drifting through life up till now. With each day that passed, I had accepted my fate and the fact I was a nobody. But since meeting the duke and becoming his maid, for the first time in my eighteen years, I felt like a ‘somebody’. I even dare to dream bigger now. Maybe someday I could be a writer, a bookkeeper, a dressmaker, a