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Chapter 28 In the Duchess' Garden (Part IV)

Author: Caine Casann
last update Last Updated: 2025-12-05 23:59:28

The young master couldn’t understand it.

Suppressing his emotions had gotten easier over the years, but he was still a child.

He felt sadness, loneliness, excitement, disappointment, surprise, and frustration in varying intensities, sometimes miniscule but often an unconcealable surge in the moment they surge from within.

It’s how pieces of his true self slipped into the world—a crack that lingered for a moment or two—then mended just as fast as it formed.

On the other hand, the young lady, who seemed like a normal child, suddenly held a distant air about her in the blink of a second, evoking a sense of maturity and coldness that the young lord had only ever felt from the duke and those of similar ranking and higher.

The lady’s gaze and actions held a certain degree of honed control, one the young lord strived to emulate once he recognized its value as a weapon.

‘But she’s not a noble nor is she acquainted with anyone other than myself.’

Like a book written in a lost ancient language,
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