ARE YOU MY REAL PARENTS?

CHAPTER 13: ARE YOU MY REAL PARENTS?

“What if Eliot refuses to marry me again, Ma?” Grace worriedly asked.

She was frowning, her forehead are ceased into lines as she looks to her mother.

“Nonsense.” Mrs. Duke chuckled. “I know Lauren, and by the looks of it, her son doesn’t have much of a choice. It’s either marrying you or losing everything, my dear.”

“You seems so sure, Ma.” Grace raised her eyebrows. Her eyes deems curious about her own mother’s relationship to Eliot’s own.

Mrs. Duke chuckled, “Let’s just say that she owes me something.”

“She owes you something—?”

But a knock on the door stopped the pair.

“Are you expecting somebody?” Grace looked at her mother.

“No, I wonder who—”

But they don’t need to wonder for so long. When it was pushed open, the stress looking Mr. Duke, Grace father showed up with a defeated expression on his face.

“I’m home.” He said, weary, and he reeks of the smell of sweat and piss.

The reminder of the prison and how savages they are for mistreating hi