Evil Duke, Please Be Gentle!

"Ha! Do you think I have not tried it? But she did not believe in me. She had come to visit the capital even when she knew that she was sick and traveling for days would deteriorate her health.

And you have left such a meager sum for us. Have you ever thought how I would manage that!" he gritted his teeth as she continued to accuse him for everything.

"The meager sum you are talking about was the savings of all my life and an average family's three generations could have lived with it." he spat with anger.

"Can you look at me? Do you think I am in a better position to solve your grievances!

I am struggling to live with a meager amount of food that is not enough for one meal, yet you came this far just to accuse me for everything?" he gritted his teeth as his anger took over his guilt and his mood worsen,

"So, if you are done, then leave. Leave or you would be locked with me soon enough.

I did not know what tricks you have played to come here but let me warn you, these Thawyne are not fools.

It would be only a matter of time that they would find out your ill intentions towards them and would catch you too." he warned. That was the last thing he could do for his daughter whom he had often neglected in his life but that did not mean that he did not love her.

"I have told you in the past too that i am have regretful towards my mistakes but i never intend to hurt you and your mother." he took a deep sigh and closed his eyes while leaning on the dark wall that was full of hard stones that hurt his back, but he could not care about it in this moment.

"I am here to take you back to mother. You can apologize to her by yourself and as far as it is about the members of Thawyne family.

They all are a bunch of fools who were busy fighting with each other so I did not need to do much." he raised his head with a look of shock in his eyes but soon a mocking laugh reflected it.

"And you believed it? They are good at playing roles.

They have trapped me the very same way. I thought that Evan was still unmarried and they were fighting with each other so killing one and putting the blame on the other would be easy.

But that was all their trap. They took me red handled while killing a baron. But who cares about him?

He deserved it. Hannah, that is not the time to fight with your father. You should leave as soon as possible.

I have some payment left for things I have done. You can go to my old house in the town and search there in my cupboard, you will find bags full of gold coins.

Take them and leave and never come back before his majesty would find out about your existence.

He had asked me to do all this but when I fell into the trap, he did not even spare me a glance as if he did not know me at all.

Though I have a few proof against him, revealing them would only mean that I am inviting my death.

But even if that is the case, I truly want you to live without regret. So, it would be better that you forget about this father who could give you nothing." a look of pain and regret filled his face and she knew that his emotions towards her were sincere.

She had felt so aggrieved and angered towards him to abandon them from the start. At a young age, she had thought that her father would go out for trade like her mother had told her.

And she was proud that though her father only lives with them one or two weeks in a month, he is working so hard to give us a better life but when she grew up, she came to know that the father she looked up to was a man who was doing despicable things.

He had another wife and daughter in the neighboring empire and he went to live with them. Not only that, he did nothing. He only asked them for money and then brought that money for her and her mother to spend.

So, they were all feeding over his second wife. She felt so miserable and asked her mother to leave that kind of trash of a father only to receive a slap in response.

From that the love she had for him died, she started to resent him to a limit that she did not come to greet him when he came and did not talk to him at all.

But she could not deny that he did not care for her. No matter how rude she behaved, he always stopped her mother to scold her or raise a hand on her.

But that increased her guilt and only made her resent him further and she never realized when that resentment grew to a limit of hating all men.

But in the end, she was just like him. When he left and her mother started to become ill, she followed his traces and came to the capital.

There she met his majesty and he told how Edward was in the prison of Thayne because he tried to kill them.

How they tricked him and his own daughter for which he had left her and her mother, sent him there after tricking him.

Her blood boiled but there was nothing she could do against such a strong and powerful family when he guided her

He helped her in getting a good job in the palace of princess and told her if she wanted to save him, he had to play with the heart of Ethan.