Cry , Even better if you , beg

"-the man who keeps ruining your life!"

Claudine's words kept ringing in Leyla's mind as she continued to listen to a daze at Claudine's words. Everything was so muddled, she wasn't paying attention, only so focused on the fact she was found out.

But why did she say it like that? Leyla knew how much the Duke ruined her life by making her enter an affair, but why did Lady Brandt make it sound as though it started long before that?

It was like she saw something in her eyes, which prompted Claudine to let her go abruptly and laugh pitifully at her.

"Goodness, you haven't realized it yet, did you, you poor girl?" Claudine shook her head in disbelief as she laughed. "Oh, you truly are so pitiful." She sighed, drawing closer to look Leyla firmly in the eyes.

"He helped ruin your engagement with Kyle. Did you know that?"

'What?' Leyla blinked, as something in her sparked at the new information.

"Tsk, you're still the same after all," Claudine clicked her tongue in disappointment, "You're still so clueless about the things around you Leyla."

And so Claudine began to tell her.

She told Leyla about what the Duke did last summer to break the two of them apart, just so he could finally have Leyla all to himself.

Leyla listened in rapt attention, eyes frozen as she stared into space at the memories coming back to her all at once as to why she broke things off with Kyle.