Duke, This Will Sting for a Moment (30 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 41
Although it was still midsummer night, the burrow was cool and damp. At their feet, rats and insects summoned by the dark mage swarmed thickly.
“So, the secret story you wanted to tell me is…?”
Frost’s upturned lips drooped sulkily.
What could possibly be a secret meant to be shared ‘just between the two of us’? He’d felt so light and excited, as if walking on clouds. He’d expected so much…
Seeing Cassandra already waiting here suggested that his wife’s intended story wasn’t the sweet, intimate secret he’d imagined. His heart, inflated like a balloon, deflated with a soft sigh.
Having answered Yuriella’s summons and slipped away quietly from the banquet, Cassandra had shed the illusion cast by the Lord of the Magic Tower and reverted to her true form.
“The dark mage told a rather useful tale.”
“Must we… really hear it in a place like this?”
He hadn’t hoped for a moonlit stroll through the garden with falling petals like some nineteen-year-old lady—but a foul-smelling, filthy burrow where the dark mage had been imprisoned for six years?
“Ah, I’m sorry the location is so poor. Cassandra said it would be easier to understand if she explained it here.”
Merely having separated the troublesome Airy and the Lord of the Magic Tower offered little comfort; the setting—just the two of them—was far too miserable.
“Cassandra! I told you not to eat the bugs!”
Yuriella shouted toward the ragged woman gnawing on an insect. It was the pig the Lord of the Magic Tower had magically disguised as Cassandra.
Frost pulled Yuriella back as she moved toward ‘Cassandra the honey pig’ and lifted her lightly into his arms.
“Ah!”
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Hahahaha!!! She is so funny!!!!!! How she changed so much!
I love how she realized she loved him from the begining. But I die seeing him jealous of himself.
Awww