Evil Duke, Please Be Gentle!

"If there is nothing else, I am leaving!" She turned around to leave but before she could reach the door, he had already run and covered the door.

She looked at Arden with a frown and even her mother raised a brow though instead of frown there was an amused smile on her face.

All the anger and disappointment she was feeling before coming here was gone and she only wished she could have snacks in her hand to watch their drama.

"What does that supposed to mean?" she glared at the man who was acting strange since yesterday. She had thought that he would leave her like others if she behaved coldly, but he was not.

Not only he was not leaving, he was gluing himself to her without giving her space to breathe.

"As I said, I will marry you. So, it is only right that I would spend quality time with you so that you fall head over heels for me!"

"Hahahaha! Oh my, hahaha!" Taken aback by the strange response, Olvia was not able to respond as she continued to stare with shock at the man when her mother laughed while holding her stomach.

Even her eyes were filled with mirth when Olivia turned to glare at her.

"Mother!" she eyed her mother with anger who only scoffed!

"What? Do I need permission from you to laugh now? Are you forgetting who your mother is here?" with the cold voice of her mother, Olivia flinched and pursued her lips.

Her mother has been behaving cold ever since she was accused of kidnapping Evan. but when she wanted to apologize, she did not listen at all.

She only said that "you did not understand what you have done. So do not give your empty apology to me and do not approach me until you realize your mistake!" her father was better who had slapped her and sent her here to think about her decisions.

"Arden, you have my permission. In fact, I have an offer. Why dont you serve her as her personal knight in the pretense of keeping an eye on the enemy of Thawyne family.

Even her father would not be able to take objection then." she clapped her hands with a proud smile on her face as if she had solved the biggest problem of the empire.

"Can i?" Arden was so surprised at the sudden offer that he could feel like he was flying.

"What! No!"

"Why! Yes, of course."

Both Olivia and her mother replied at the same time and then narrowed their eyes at each other.

Arden felt a tinge of guilt as he knew that he was forcing her and putting her in a difficult spot, but he believed that it was necessary for her to be brought out of her cocoon or else she was going to stay in that forever.

The Olivia he knew never felt so dim and dull and could have destroyed the whole world to keep herself happy.

He didn't like the one who did not care about her happiness at all. And since she won't then he would!

"Thank you, your grace. I will return these letters and bring the relevant letter tomorrow with all my luggage.`` Without giving a chance to Olivia to reject him, he ran out of the hall dancing in joy.

"Mother! Why did you do that?" she asked in an aggrieved voice. "Have you not seen that I was trying to ignore him?" even a blind could see that!

"Of course, I did. Take it as the punishment you were asking for. So, you better not chase him away. Now go and get some rest. You are going to be busy tomorrow." she waved her hands and sat to have her grapes under the complaining eyes of her daughter who gave her a complaining glance before leaving from there.

"My lord, these are the letters I have received. I have already sent a group of trusted knights to all the nobles and rich men supporting the old man but..`` Leo who was reading the letter one by one with a cold look over his face raised his head to look at Arden whose voice turned hesitating.

"One of the letters was addressed to the royal family. It has a request to punish duke Thawyne for deceiving the empire by hiding her real daughter and giving her place to an unknown boy.

Not only had he mistreated his daughter, he had lied to the royal family and given the seat of the head of the knights to a royal family.

It had asked for the execution of.. My lord. And severe punishment for his highness.'' In the end, his voice was getting lower and lower as he felt the fury of the man whose grip on the letter was so tight that it tore into two.

"Did he already send the letter?" The voice was so cold and scary that even Arden, who was long gone habitual to his coldness, flinched but shook his head.

"We are not sure, my lord. The letter was sent to lady Olvia so that she could help in passing the letter and the commoner's letter took months to reach his majesty.

But we can not be lenient about this matter. What if..?" Though he did not complete it, Leo got the hidden meaning behind his words which only turned his face darker and gloomy.

"Then it is time to end it right there. I want you to keep an eye on all these nobles but do not attack them or they would make excuses and blame us instead.

Only attack them when you catch them red handed. And pass the red bottle to him with a trusted maid. Let him have the joy and taste of success before he could fall in the trap and get himself killed.

If he is so desperate to poison all of us, then we should support him. After all, he is my father in law! Shouldn't we fulfill his last wish?"