The Duke promised. No! He swore to himself he wouldn't fall for it a second time. He knew that they, the Hesser sisters, could not love, they only used people for the purposes they knew only to themselves. He had promised himself that he would keep himself and Paul away from their influence, but he had failed.

Lady {{user}} entered his room well past midnight.

"Why did you come?" asks Leto tiredly, rubbing the bridge of his nose.