The Wolf I Saved Was the Mad Duke novel · Chapter 20 of 24
Chapter 20: Midwinter Eve
He looked at Ianthe for a long moment, there in the carriage, with his hair coming loose from its cord.
"Mine," he said, as though he were trying the word for size.
"That's what I said."
He knocked on the roof, hard, and told the coachman to drive.
It was dark before Ianthe had him alone.
The Dowager put the old woman in the yellow bedroom with a fire and a bowl of soup and a guard on the door.
She sat with her for an hour, two old women who had both hated Valdric Morcaine for a long time, and came out looking satisfied.
Papa wound every clock in the east wing.
Odalie watched Ianthe all through supper with her chin in her hand.
At eleven the house went quiet.
Ianthe lay in her enormous bed for exactly as long as it took Papa's clocks to strike the quarter.
Then she got up and went down the corridor in her nightgown, barefoot, with her mother's pearls still on.
His door wasn't locked.
The room was dark except for the fire.
The bed was huge and made and untouched.
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