Evil Duke, Please Be Gentle!

She held her chin with her right hands while her other hand tapped the glass of the table. She had heard this song before. Though she did not remember where. She had learnt it in her childhood.

As Leo started to sing the song in his seductive voice, the words came to flow in the mind of Evan, his eyes closed and before Leo could sing the rest of the song..

"The knight won the heart of the countess.."

"While the baroness was the princess of Ansal town."

Evan never knew that the foolish song was an important one. She had picked it up only because it had many funny names in it. But when he started singing it, the words came out of her mouth naturally.

But soon she realized that he was not singing anymore. Except for her singing, she could not even hear the sound of his breathing. Did the man leave when she was singing? With that thought she growled as she opened her eyes.

But contrary to her thoughts, the man was still sitting in front of her, without even moving an inch. But he was looking very strange, especially his eyes.

It looked like he wanted to rip her apart but he was controlling himself for some reasons. His gaze was enough to leave cold sweats on her body. But she did not understand what the matter was!

"What… Did I do?" she asked as she folded her legs and held them between her hands tightly as if she was trying to cover her whole body from the daggers he was throwing from his eyes.

He pressed down between his eyebrows and breathed in deeply. He lifted his eyes and glowered at her.

His eyes were still dark as they were before. His fists were clenched so tightly that they had green veins popping up. But when he saw the fear in her eyes and the way she was trying to be one with the sofa by crawling back on it more and more, he stood up and left the room.

"........."

It took her a few seconds to come out of her shock while she continued to look at the creaking door that was still shaking with the intensity he had used in opening and closing it.

Her brows furrowed into a thin line as she stood up and ran towards the door. She peeped out of it but his figure was long gone. Then she looked at the door, inspecting the closet.

"You know it is your good luck that you are still in one piece." she patted the door as if it was a human and would thank her back.

"Jerk! He is more whimsical than the women suffering from menopause." she snorted and then entered the room and closed the door.

She did not notice the man whom she was searching on the other side was standing behind the door. His eyes were still dark and brooding. Though his hands had turned normal again, many unfathomable thoughts were running in his mind.

He was sure that the song she sang just a while ago was made by his mother in front of him. And she had never sung it in front of anyone for Evan to know it. It has just been made for them so that they would not get punished by the aunt.

Yet the way Evan sang it, as if she had heard the song many times. The words, the tune and the way she sang it!!! A havoc was created in his heart.

"Evan!! Just who are you!?" his eyes continued to stare at the door for a long time as if the inanimate door would reply to him if he continued to stare at it.

"What are you doing here? I thought you were busy coaxing your aunt all day? Don't tell me Evan threw you out of the room?" the voice finally broke his reverie. He turned back to see Eve was standing on the door of the room opposite Evan.

His aura was brooding and his black eyes were still filled with death stares. She shivered but stayed put.

"Why? Don't tell me that you had a couple fight because of aunt and now you are going to take the anger out on me?" she tried to sound bold by raising her head high defiantly. But when he passed a gaze to her. She trembled in fear and gulped.

"Umm, staring at the door would not open it directly. If you want, I can teach you how to win the heart of a woman perfectly! But for that you have to stop staring like that!" she replied, collecting all her courage! Yet it did not give her the desired results!

Leo stared at his annoying sister for a second and then turned and left for his room.

"Bam '' after closing the door, Evan walked back to the sofa and slumped on it with an exhausted face. She rubbed her forehead with a sigh when her gaze fell on the leftover books needed to be studied before tomorrow. Her eyes had already turned heavy, yet she took the book in her hands.

The delicate face that she had seen in the portraits of the walls came in front of her eyes. The lady had a sweet smile on her face, yet even did not know why it felt sad. Her high spirits dampened looking at the portrait too.

She did not know why but she always missed her mother whenever she looked at the face of the lady! Maybe it was because every mother gave that motherly vibes!

She shook her head at that thought. She still remembered a few who beat their kids to a pulp and she never felt motherly vibes from them. But then..! She roamed her hands on the portrait that had slightly turned yellow due to the effect of time. Maybe it was because of her kind smile. Suddenly she felt very curious to know more about the lady!

She turned the pages hurriedly with a curiosity she never felt before.

But surprisingly the pages were torn.

"Ohh" she turned the pages hurriedly only to find that the other pages were fine. But the portrait had changed to the duke William Thawyne. Disappointment filled her face and her lips curled downwards. She turned more pages, but the book continued to Eli, Eve and Leo. She was about to keep the book down when her eyes fell on the face of Leo. he was brooding even in the picture. She wondered what he would be doing now.

'Ha! He would either be roasting his knights or brooding alone in the room, turning his room into a north pole!'

Leo walked towards his study room with urgent footsteps. His eyes had always been cold yet the knights did not have the courage to look at him at that moment. As if he would rip apart the person who would make eye contact with him.

His posture finally relaxed when he saw the waiting document on his wooden desk. Walking with leisure steps, he picked up the glass and drank it all in a single gulp. When he opened his eyes again, rationality had returned a bit in them.

He finally held a set of documents in his hands. His eyes had a bit of anticipation that could be felt with the way he fluttered the pages of the document.

But as the pages continued to change, his aura turned chilly again. All the room froze when he gazed at the paper as if it was his mortal enemy. The more he read it, the more knights wished that they could be one with the walls.

"My lord, according to our investigation, the lady had never left her hometown, let alone visited the area nearby dukedom.

There is no way that she had ever met the late duchess.

But.." his aide tried his best to speak further but before he could continue the sentence.

"Bam!" the documents were forcefully slammed against the desk and the heart leapt out of the knight's body.

His eyes were filled with so much cold as if he would froze even time and the empire would sleep into a deep frozen night. The knight sweated tears. He did not know why he was so ecstatic when he was chosen as the side of Leo when the war ended.

He cussed the day when he had said yes for the job. If possible he wanted to go back and beat his past self and so no for the work.

Leo forced his eyes closed and when they opened again, it was much calmer than before. But the whirlpool in his eyes turned darker like a black hole as if he would suck everything around it.

"So, you mean to say that you were not able to find anything about the girl who seemed to be ordinary in everything, even her background?"

"Yes!!!"

".........."