Evil Duke, Please Be Gentle!

The bright sky was warmer today and the soft breeze felt too welcoming. Leo was in a good mood to like every small thing around him after giving the newspaper to his father.

The kids that were making noise on the roadsides while playing looked adorable. The ladies who were chatting randomly blocking the way looked less annoying and the slow speed of the carriage he was riding did not affect him at all.

He smiled at everyone who met his eyes on the road, shocking the wits out of them. They kept turning and looking back to make sure it was the same cold statue that lived with Evangeline!

William was leaning on the seat inside the carriage alone but he had a small smile on his face too.

Though he was deep in thoughts, his face had a look of relief. The newspaper has an article on Ethan as how he had helped in building a new orphanage.

The man was a philanthropist and worked hard for the welfare of the empire. He was taken as the member of administration looking for the welfare of the empire while William was offered his post back.

No one ever asked Leo to resign from the position of head of the knights.

Eli often comes to meet them. She was happy with her new family and surprisingly it was her real family too. The date of her marriage was also announced in the newspaper, telling the whole empire that the vacant post of the empress from a decade was going to fill again.

Whole empire is celebrating the happiness of his son and daughter and son he would have a grandchild. What else he could ask for!

Eve had the chance to come back for the marriage of Eli as a foregn envoy coming to show their goodwill with her husband.

There, he would scold her a lot and even pull her hair.

Though he had seen a different future for all of them. He was happy as long as his kids found their own happiness.

Though he was living in a small house, it was full of facilities and Jenna took good care of him.

And when he looked at Evan and Leo playing music together or gardening together, he felt blessed and relieved.

As the carriage stopped in front of the physician, William came out of his thoughts.

Leo jumped from his carriage and looked around with a smile, towards everyone who greeted him.

None of them know that he was a duke. For them, Evan married a commoner and demanded her house and property back.

Now the husband and his father live with her. The old man did nothing while the husband was a knight.

He was relieved. All his life he had to maintain his dignity and could only follow a certain way of behaving and could never let his guard down. Now he was free to laugh and joke.

As if a chain that was binding him was lost. He wonders why people run behind nobility and power. He would rather have this normal life.

"Father!" he called William as he opened the door but surprisingly, he was already looking at Leo with a knowing look.

"We are getting late, father!" he said in an indifferent voice as he held him with his arms when William smiled.

Leo took him in and laid on the small bed for patients. It was the best physician of the empire that had even denied working for the royal family since he did not want to stay caged in the royal palace all this time.

Leo had chosen him because the royal family had discarded the man for insulting them. So, he could trust him a bit.

He was the one who had analyzed that both Evan and his father were given drugs. Though he wanted to kill her person, Leo knew that Ethan was still protecting that vicious woman.

Though he kept her caged. He spent every night with her. Love! It makes you a fool sometimes.

"Ah, young man, you are early again." Ronald came out of his personal room while wiping his hands and looked at Leo who was sitting there patiently with his father.

"You did not bring your wife?" he asked as he walked closer and checked the pulse of William and then continued to inspect his eyes and mouth.

"It would have been better if you had brought her too. She is at her last stage of giving birth, so she needs constant check ups." he said after letting go of the hands of William and jotting down some important points on the parchment.

"Your father is much better now." with that he picked up a few ingredients and mixed them in the bowl. After that, he mixed some water and then passed it to Leo.

Leo took it and started to feed it slowly to his father,

"Most of his body is cleansed. I am sure that with your daughter born, he would be able to walk and speak again. Then he would take a good care of you daughter, right old man?" William blinked his eyes and tried to nod his head slowly making Leo full of joy. Ronald Patted his shoulders and then took out a small stem which had purple marks on it and have a strong smell.

"I am writing a new drug to you that you can give him at home for the meantime and so as to your wife." but then he stopped as if thinking something and then added,

"But you have to make sure that none of them ever consume that drug again. The antidote i am giving to them have some lethal drugs too." he said with a grave voice as he looked at the small stem in his hands,

"Though it have the ability to do that miracles. If they were mixed with the old drug they were taking, then the result would only be their instant death."