Evil Duke, Please Be Gentle!

Hannah could not bear his foolish words anymore. He had no idea how lucky he was! He wanted to ruin his position and lose all this power to be with a girl? How foolish! If she would have been at his place, then she would have cared about nothing except flattering her father and being in his good graces so that he would give her the position of duke in the future.

She closed her eyes and faked sleep so that she did not need to bear his foolish thoughts anymore.

She felt him stroking her hair while holding her in his arms. She wanted to push him away but endured it since she had to seduce the man to pregnant her anyway.

Soon, they reached the palace when she finally opened her eyes as she could not hold off her curiosity. She had heard the palace of Thayne was more beautiful than the royal palace.

How true it was! She stared at the building with wonder! The large buildings were reaching the clouds while the vast garden was filled with all kinds of rare flowers. The smell was so strong that it was wafting in her nose from afar.

The scene was no less than a fairytale. She imagined herself wandering there and then sitting on the gazebo while enjoying the tea. Half a dozen maids were standing around her to serve her the snacks while she had a leisurely smile on her face.

"Do you like the palace?" his soft voice that was full of endearment rang in her ears breaking the dream she was living in.

Her face turned foul but she hid her feelings and then turned to smile at her as she nodded her head shyly.

'If only you would not have been here to ruin the beauty!' she added in her heart.  As she smiled at him, she hugged her waist gently and placed his head on the crook of her neck.

Soon the carriage stopped and he finally let go of her. The coachman opened the carriage and Ethan walked out of it first and then forwarded her hands to her.

She smiled as she felt important. That was how she should have been treated from the start. She gloated as she walked out of the carriage when she saw a few of the maids bowing her head while waiting at the entrance of the palace.

"Martha, this is Hannah. She is going to stay here from today. I want you to assign her as my personal maid since I don't have not one yet. And I want you to treat her nicely. She is one of my friends from where I used to live. She is special to me so I would prefer her not to be treated ill." the old lady stared at Hanna with piercing eyes.

Her gaze was a bit strong for being a maid. So what if she was a head maid, she did not have any right to look down at her. But she endured.

"I will keep that in mind." she nodded finally and took her gaze away from Hannah.

"His highness is worried about you. He had asked for you twice. Why don't you go and meet him and I will show Hannah the palace and her room." his brows furrowed when he heard her. It was rare for his father to look for him!

From the day he had come here, his father had only called him once to tell that he had assigned teachers for him. After that, he had always been busy with so many things as if he had forgotten about his existence.

"Alright, then I will see both of you later." He passed an aussered smile to Hannah before getting lost in the passage inside the palace.

Hannah continued to stare at the space he was gone to with rage. How could he leave her alone without making sure she was treated well. How cold! She was going to teach him a lesson later.

"You! You should be polite to the master. Even if you were his friend in the past. Now he is a higher noble while you are a commoner. You should be grateful that he still remembered you and even brought you here.

But here are a few rules that you have to follow and if I ever found you being disrespectful toward any member of the family, I will throw you out even if you are the friend of my master." she added coldly as she stared at Hannah with a commanding look in her eyes.

"Now follow me, I will show you your room," the room was in the attic and though it had all the necessary things, it was not like Hannah was expecting her room to be.

She wanted a luxurious room that had gold status and marbles. She wanted to have a room that had the finest silk as curtains and bed sheets, not some cotton that a commander has.

"You are going to share this room with another maid who is working now. You will meet her later. For now, let me show you your workplace too." share? Share this small matchstick? Just what did they take her for?

She tried to match the steps of the old lady who walked towards a room again. This room was the one she had expected to have.

The bed looked much softer and warm. The paintings were nice and the curtains were of soft silk. The whole room gives a luxurious feeling that her eyes are filled with greed and jealousy.

"This is master Ethan's room. Since you are assigned as his personal maid, you have to help him in bathing, serve him meals and make sure that all his needs are fulfilled. The maids would provide you food at the doorstep. You did not need to go anywhere but stay beside him to fulfill his every demand!"

"Yes, I will make sure that his every need will be fulfilled well." and that need would be only me!