The Duke Should Divorce Me, So Why Is He Stalling My Death? novel · Chapter 25 of 32

Chapter 25: The Last Night

She came to his bedroom at midnight with her hair down and her feet bare.

The room was dark but for a fire.

He sat in the chair by the window with his shirt open at the throat, and he did not get up.

There was a glass on the sill beside him.

It was full, and he had not touched it.

"You can't come in here," Alaric said.

"I'm in."

"You said I was to ask."

"I said you don't touch me unless I ask." She shut the door behind her and leaned on it. "I'm asking."

"Lysandra."

"I'm asking you to put your hands on me. Tonight, before the Banquet. Because I might not have a hand to put on you after it."

His jaw clenched.

"You've hidden something," he said. "In the garden. At the door of the carriage. You have a second thing and you're not telling me."

"I know."

"We said no lies."

"We did." She crossed the room slowly. "Throw it back at me, then. I'll deserve it."

"I should."

"Go on."

"I will not," said Alaric, hoarse, "spend your last night asking."

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