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
