Chapter 91 - - 91 : Just such a relationship
Kyle stayed behind in the cafe long after Claudine had left. He sat there, on his table, taking in what Claudine said in frozen silence. The waiter quietly came up beside him. They dutifully wiped the table down, taking with them the untouched third cup of coffee he had ordered.
They glanced over at Kyle, and felt concerned with how pale as a blank sheet he was.
'Don't listen to Claudine,' Kyle berated himself over and over back when he was listening to what she had to say to him. He firmly told himself that this was just how Claudine was. She hated Leyla ever since he could remember. She's trying to ruin Leyla's image...
And he hated how he was beginning to believe her.
But he'd catch himself and tell himself that this was Leyla! She was not the kind of woman who'd enter willingly into an affair with an engaged man! There was no way Claudine was telling the truth!
But the thought of what if kept bugging him. What if Claudine was telling him the truth? He did see the way the Duke had eyed Leyla, that couldn't have just been his imagination! All of a sudden he could feel a chill in the pit of his stomach as anxiousness and despair came over his thoughts.
'If the Duke really feels that way towards Leyla, then they could...' Kyle's thoughts trailed off, before shaking the awful thought out of his mind.
"Their relationship blossomed right after you left for the capital, Kyle, did you know?" Claudine casually pointed out as she took a sip of her cup of coffee. Kyle knew better to believe every word Claudine said. He knew that...
But she made him believe they were only waiting for the right time, and he can't help the doubt forming in his mind around that. Another thing that made him doubt that she was telling him all but lies was the tone in her voice.
There was something real in them. The genuine hate in her tone was unmistakable, and it strengthened the possibility that what she had been telling him had ounces of truth in them.
Because as much as Claudine hated Leyla, she wasn't the type to spread false rumors about her. Not unless she knew, a hundred percent, what was going on with Leyla and the Duke. Claudine knew that if she made any false accusations, it would make her look bad. Her pride and honor would be tarnished because of misinformation.