The Terminally-Ill Duke Clings to Me Every Night (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 96

“My lord. Wait just a moment…!”

Leah called out to Akia, who was pulling her wrist and striding across the corridor. For some reason, ever since they’d come down to Bellarus, Akia had been relentlessly harping on Edward.

At first, she’d tried to brush it off, but leaving the dining room and abandoning their guest like that was unlike Akia.

“My lord!”

Only then, at her urgent cry, did his pace finally slow.

But only for a moment—Akia, who had been keeping his head bowed as if holding something back, suddenly trembled at the shoulders.

“My lord…?”

Just as Leah, sensing something ominous in the duke’s demeanor, called out to him once more, Akia shouted in a voice thick with anger.

“My lord, my lord—that blasted ‘my lord’!”

He whirled around abruptly, locking eyes with Leah, and pointed toward the dining room.

“He was calling that man Edward just fine a moment ago—so when exactly will I stop being ‘my lord’ to you?”

“What?”

“A name isn’t something you use lightly, not even among people of the same sex. Do you even understand what it means to address someone of the opposite sex by their given name instead of their family name?”

“Well…”

Leah wasn’t completely ignorant of that. It was just that by the time she’d learned the truth, she’d already been calling him Edward.

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