Leander

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“Cursed girl, she’s complicated everything.” Jasper spat out as the door clicked shut behind us. I followed silently away from the study and up the stairs while he continued to rage and fume.

Suddenly he stopped to turn to me, and we stood eye to eye. “I don’t want you starting any conversations with her.”

I didn’t respond. He’d already been angry enough to cut me once, and I wasn’t in the mood to heal it twice.

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“In fact, why don’t you just keep your distance all together.”

“And how do you propose I keep an eye on her if I’m meant to keep my distance?” I asked, raising a brow.

The Duke’s pulse throbbed in his temple. “Keep your distance unless it is absolutely necessary to intervene.”

“Necessary to you, or necessary to her?”

I stared at him in challenge, experienced at keeping my expression blank while the duke struggled to find the words while in this heated state.

“Necessary to her well-being!” Jasper sneered at me, as if the answer were painfully obvious. “If something happens to her on the journey, then this will all be for nothing.” He turned away, continuing his march towards Daelyn’s room where he continued to threaten the servants.