My Dear Duke(BL)
Chapter 69: Someone Can Only Love Their Family(1)

Chapter 69: Someone Can Only Love Their Family(1)

Asher wanted to check on Miss Anne but he was hesitating for some reason.

’I will visit her later. She must be still asleep.’

Asher thought and just stayed in the duke’s room. The duke was sound asleep and Asher didn’t have much to do there either. Because of that, he was bored but didn’t want to leave there either.

He lazily watched the duke and suddenly jumped up when he noticed the duke’s eyelashes flutter.

’He is waking up.’

Asher looked away and acted like he was not just glaring at him.

"Ugh! Asher?"

Asher immediately went to see what the duke wanted. The duke’s eyes slightly watery and half opened, he opened his mouth but then closed again.

"What is it duke?"

Asher asked when he saw the duke wasn’t going to say it.

"...Can you give me some water?"

The duke got up and Asher brought him water which the duke drank as if he was thirsty for decades.

"Do you feel better now duke? Right...Sir Lucas told me to call him when you wake up."

Asher suddenly remembered and said. Asher waa going to leave the room to tell sir Bill to call sir Lucas but the duke grabbed his wrist and restrained him.

"No need to hurry. I am fine now. Let’s call him later."

The duke said and let go of Asher. Even though the duke said so, would sir Lucas later blame him for not doing what he asked? Asher was lost but decided to do as the duke said in the end anyway.

"I am planning to talk with Anne today. I need to get this over with."

The duke said seriously as he looked at Asher.

Asher was surprised he brought up that topic first thing waking up but nodded as he encouraged the duke. It’s good to proceed when he is feeling daring.

And it’s better to end this mess soon and clear the air between the two...

"Good luck."

Asher said and the duke gave a slight nod as he accepted his kind hearted encouragement.

"Thank you."

Asher was again quite taken aback as he heard the duke say. Asher couldn’t help but smile. It’s nice to see the duke appreciate him. He was happy about that.

"It’s alright duke. Everyone has hard times in their lives and wants someone else to share the burden."

Asher said, in a good mood which seemed to have lighten up the atmosphere too.

Soon, Felix got up and did some stretches before washing himself. Asher did try to stop him because his fever got worse after the bath last time. Now his fever had gone, Asher was afraid it would come back again.

Felix had to reassure Asher he would just watch his face and wouldn’t be in water for too long. Only then did Asher let him go.

As promised, Felix quickly washed his face and came out quickly because he didn’t want to get sick again and get scolded by Lucas

Or...he didn’t want to make Asher worry.

While he was in the bathroom, Asher had prepared his clothes. So, Felix soon got dressed, finally leaving the room feeling a sense of relief.

Before leaving, he asked Asher to take the day off because Asher must be tired. Felix might still be in a big mess if Asher had not listened to his whining and helped him to manage his thoughts that day. So Asher deserved every reward.

Asher agreed with Felix and then they parted ways as Felix entered his office and Asher walked back to the servants’ house.

Even though Felix was still nervous about how the day would go, seeing Asher’s excited face, it encouraged him to try harder.

Asher was indeed good at comforting.

Felix secretly glanced at the man slowly disappearing from his sight and sorted out his opinion about him at that time.

’He is a good person.’

Felix left a sigh again, feeling relieved for whatever the reason.

However, little did he know he had stirred up drama again.

It was not the early morning. So the maids were all around the mansion doing their chores. They did see the rumoured lovers together that day.

Seeing the two walk side by side together, of course, made the servants who had been interested in gossiping and had been eying the duke lately, get excited as the rumours seem to be real.

The duke and Asher came out of the duke’s bedroom and walked together to his office room.

Then, did that mean Asher spent his night at the mansion with the duke, in his room?

That’s what everyone thought as they excitedly ran away to tell others not really knowing events folded inside that room with endless cries.

It’s still better they don’t know that.

After finally concentrating on his work, Felix managed to forget things that were bothering him for the time being.

After confirming the schedule for the day, Felix started his work and passed his time till breakfast time came.

He had breakfast, then got back to work till day time before finally deciding to take action. Working makes him calm down and focus better. It distracts him from upsetting things.

Overall, no matter how exhausting it is, he found working like this helps him to feel better. It could say he loves working because it helps him mentally. When he gets busy, he won’t get time to worry about anything else. So, yeah. He loves working.

’Huu... let’s finish this drama today.’

Felix felt heavy in his heart again as he stopped in front of Anne, who was sitting in the garden waiting for him as he had requested a teatime meeting with her.

She excitedly welcomed him and served him tea as she had always loved tea times with him.

After some normal talk about their days, Felix took a big gulp and decided to come to the topic. He didn’t want to shock Anne so he let their tea time go peacefully. He only came to the topic when he felt it wouldn’t be too soon to pull out what he was talking about.

Felix wanted this to be a calm talk because he knew he wouldn’t have energy to argue or reason with her to continue.

He was confident Anne knew about everything and he didn’t even think he would have to explain anything. He just knew it. Anne definitely knew it before him.

"Anne...at that time, you said there is something you know but I don’t know..."

And, he was right of course.