The Wolf I Saved Was the Mad Duke novel · Chapter 17 of 24
Chapter 17: I Know
"I know," Ianthe said.
He had clearly prepared for a great many answers.
That wasn't one of them.
"You know," he repeated.
"I know."
He sat down.
There wasn't a chair behind him, so he sat down on the hearthrug, all at once.
Ianthe knelt down in front of him in her borrowed nightgown.
"Since when?" he said.
"Long enough to have enjoyed it."
He put both hands over his face.
"I had a speech," he said through his fingers. "It had three parts. I rehearsed it on your hearthrug."
He took his hands down.
He was looking at her as if he were going back over seventeen days, one by one, and finding something terrible in each of them.
"You told me what kind of man you'd marry," he said slowly.
"I did."
"On the kitchen floor. And you knew I was listening."
"That was rather the point."
"I did all of it." His voice cracked. "Every single thing on that list, in order."
"I knelt to my grandmother in front of the entire court."
"I noticed. It was lovely."
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