Evil Duke, Please Be Gentle!

Three knights followed the man who had entered the royal court at the last moment and left as soon as they were told that the decision was already taken.

But as the court was adjourned, many nobles and their staff filled the corridor making it difficult for the knights to track those three men.

"I think they just crossed the next passage!" one of the knights pointed at the black cloak those men were wearing while entering on the passage of the other side.

Other one nodded and then ran towards the passage but when they reached there, the men were already gone.

They tried to look around and search for them for hours but there was no sign of them as if they were disappearing into thin air.

"Are you sure you have not seen three men in a dark cloak going out of the palace?" They asked the guard again who frowned as he did not understand why the same question was being asked so many times, but he still nodded and replied with respect as the men were the personal knights of his majesty.

They have the right to complain against him and make him lose his job. He did not want any problem as he could sense the tension between them.

It made him wonder if any prisoner ran away from the palace. But he knew that asking would only bring trouble so he waited there silently.

"Where else could they go!" The loud roar was enough to tremble the poor guard who bowed his head.

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"So when you reached there, the case had already ended and it was in favor of duke Thawyne?" a hint of surprise filled his voice as he was not expecting his father to relent so easily.

What made him change his mind?

"Yes, your highness. We were afraid that we would create trouble for the family if we stayed here. Therefore we left but the knights of his majesty followed us.

And I think Duke Thawyne would look at us too. He was looking confused by our sudden entrance." They exchanged glances as they remembered how the eyes of both men narrowed on his face when he said the word, "twice!" there.

"Hmm, that is a given. But do not worry, since you have worn cloaks. No one would recognize you. Leave your cloaks here and go back to your positions. I will handle it if any doubt arises." glad and relieved by his assurance, both men took a sigh or relief and left from there while Max stayed there.

He stared back at Andrew without a hint of intimidation or fear. He was looking straight into his eyes unless the two knights who had their head bowed all this time.

"So, where is he?" Max turned to look at Adele, instead of replying to Andrew who nodded her head with a sigh.

"I do not think that he is a man worth meeting. Though he is alive, it would have been better if he had died that day." The voice was full of pity but beneath it, it was filled with disdain.

"Then why did you not save him? Huh? If you knew who he was, then you should have saved him!" he almost flipped the table with the look he had given to both of them.

Max was as blank as always as if he could not understand what they were talking about while Adele galred back at him.

"Did you forget that we were enemies a few hours ago. Why would I save the son of an enemy?

He was nothing more to me than a pawn whose presence could keep me safe.

But in my defense, I have not made him like that. He was like that in fact, worse when i met him,

I only had him to blackmail your father. That is it! If you want to accuse someone. This is your father's mistake, go and accuse him.`` She shrugged her shoulders and leaned back on her seat as she continued to read the papers Andrew had given her.

These are the papers of properties he was giving her to start a new life with Max and other men of his father whom he had saved during the war.

She did feel a little bad about the young man but she could not take the blame since she was only busy taking her revenge.

How could she think about saving someone else when she was not able to save herself at that time.

Andrew could not believe that both were jerking off their responsibility but he could not deny the fact that it was his father's mistake.

He wanted to kill the young baby as soon as he had stolen him from the family of the duke.

But the knight felt pity and left him in the orphanage in the neighboring empire thinking that no one would be able to find him there.

But coincidentally that empire belonged to Adele and she found him accidentally.

In the start she felt that his striking resemblance to the duke is just a coincidence but when she kept him and investigated further, she found out the truth, the emperor was hiding.

She had used him as a fluke but the plan worked and George even agreed to make a war prisoner as their empress. What else could she have asked for?

It was perfect for her revenge plan so she hid the young man where no one could find him and since then she was keeping him as his servant to use him when the time comes.

But now that Andrew had offered her a better deal, she had passed her pawn to him.,

Call her greedy but she had their empire and wanted to take revenge so how could she feel sympathy towards their royal families who are full of dirty tricks.

She was only worried about her survival and revenge.

"When can I meet him? And where is he now?"