She wanted to be happy.
But fate was cruel.
Her mother fell ill and died, and her father, ruined by bankruptcy, took his own life.
She was adopted by a friend of her father’s, but was cast out five years later for no apparent reason.
She was then sent to work as a piano tutor in a ducal household.
There, she encountered a man she had known before, who was now the Duke.
Their connection had always been ill-fated.
Just as it had been when they first met at the polo field as children.
“Keeping it alive out of half-baked sympathy will only make the terrible pain grow worse.”
His attempt to drive her away when she had nowhere else to go proved that.
“I cannot accept being told to quit so suddenly.”
“The final decision in this household is mine.”
Yet, at some point, he began to change.
Why did his smiles of charity and meaningless kindness make her heart itch and her breath tighten?
—
Silas despised humans who were ruled by their emotions.
Yet, at some point, cracks began to appear in the wall that had long guarded his feelings.
And at last—
“Whether awake or asleep, even in my dreams, I thought of you. As if bewitched.”
He had fallen for Kyla Feilding.
There were countless reasons why he should not love her.
But he could hide them.
Even if it meant deception.
