Duke, This Will Sting for a Moment (30 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 42

‘Oh no……!’

I snapped awake the moment I saw the assassin’s blood spreading bright red across the snow-white duvet that felt like a cloud of feathers.

I’m done for.

This was the famed Nobile Trapunta that the head maid Rosalynne had urgently commissioned from a master craftsman of the imperial tailors especially for my wedding.

The very one made of the fluffiest goose down—so expensive to even speak its name and so rare that even the imperial family handled it with the utmost care.

I had ruined this precious duvet in a single moment of poor judgment.

How am I supposed to face the head maid now……?

Still reeling from the shock of witnessing Flama’s fierce battle in the crypt earlier and from the Grand Duke’s silence, I had ended up making this absurd mistake.

But the real problem was something else.

That assassin bastard sprawled on the floor beside my bed with his own sword buried in his chest.

I had boasted to the Grand Duke with my own mouth that I was far more exposed to the threat of assassination than Shabelle, and then I handled the situation this sloppily.

Right now, outside my door, the guard the Grand Duke had assigned must be standing watch with eyes blazing. And not just any guard—none other than the captain of the Angelus Knights, Leo Dominichi, was on night watch tonight!

Ah. What do I do?

“Airy……! Airy……!”

I desperately called in a hushed voice for my partner who would help me cover up this perfect crime, but Airy did not answer. Normally she appears out of nowhere even when I don’t call her and never leaves my side.

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