"Tonight, I will wait for you once more. If you won't show up, I would have to barge inside your bedchamber," he said, sounding polite but there was a clear warning underneath his smile. "Since you are now a baroness, you will be treated as a guest and be placed in the side palace. It will be easy for me to come to you."
Esther frowned inside and lowered her gaze. 'Is he taking advantage of his position? How dare he do this to me when I saved him? This ungrateful weak human!' She sighed at her helplessness. 'But why am I even letting him control me like this? Why can't I say no to him? I do not understand myself as well…'
The two of them remained quiet for the rest of the dance. Just as they bowed towards each other at the end of the music, someone approached them. It was a pretty young lady Esther didn't know, but it was someone Prince Theron recognized since they belonged to the same generation. It was Clarisa Walter, a relative of one of the dukes working under his father.
