Chapter 16

“I just said it because it was absurd that someone of the Grand Duke’s stature would date you out of all people….” “Is that an insult or a compliment?” While Chloe stood bewildered, Leah leafed through the newspaper and let out a deep sigh. “I should have known when you were rarely home, yet spent every waking moment cursing Grand Duke Berk….” “What? I did that?” “If I hadn’t seen Miss Grace, our school librarian, secretly kissing Assistant Keres—the very man she cursed every day—I would never have believed it of you.”