TNDHD 20

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He was a husband who respected, cared for and loved me. At least, he did until that night when I discovered how he truly felt. “You handed the task over to that woman?’ What a pointless thing to do! She can’t handle it. Don’t assign her anything.” The woman he was referring to was me. Whenever I wasn’t around, it seemed that he would tell others that I was incapable of doing anything. That was when I began to consider divorce. There was no way I could continue living with a man like that. Not as a noblewoman, not as an adult. I could not lie beside him in the same bed anymore. And yet— “Duchess, the Duke has gone missing.” That couldn’t be true. [I name my wife as my primary heir.] He was truly a man I could never understand.