Awakening Love Reborn to Be His Duchess (Elowen Hale) novel Chapter 629

Chapter 629 A Dangerous Thought

Scarlet looked up inmediately, surprise flashing across her face.

“Really?”

Elowen smiled at her, warmth softening her features.

“You explained everything clearly. You told me everything I wanted to know.”

Only then did Scarlet finally relax.

After a brief pause, Elowen asked casually, “You didn’t know Captain Hall before this?”

Scarlet quickly shook her head.

“No, Your Grace. Yesterday was the first time I’d ever met him.”

That only made Elowen more curious.

“Then how did you learn his name?”

Scarlet answered honestly, sitting upright as though afraid to leave out a single detail.

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“At first, the royal guards wouldn’t let me near the prison escort, but after I showed them His Grace’s signet token, they allowed me through. Prince Alaric never noticed I was standing outside. Later, on the way to

with

1. me. He said he used to serve under His Grace the Iron Bastille, Captain Hall came over and spoke

years ago, and he introduced himself as Hall, with Draven as his given name. He also said that once he found the time, he hoped to visit Duskmoor Manor properly and pay his respects to Your Grace and His Grace. Then before I left, he asked me for my name as well.”

The moment Scarlet finished speaking, the smile on Elowen’s face became impossible to hide.

Amusement spread through her expression little by little until her eyes curved brightly with mischief

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She tilted her head slightly and simply looked at Scarlet without saying a word.

Scarlet’s face instantly flushed red.

The color spread all the way from her ears down to her neck.

“Your Grace, please don’t look at me like that…”

She lowered her eyes, her voice growing quieter the longer she spoke.

“Captain Hall comunands the King’s Guard. He’s a respected man of high rank. Someone like him would never truly notice a woman as insignificant and rough as me. He only asked my name because of His Grace’s reputation. It was courtesy, nothing more. A man like that isn’t someone I could ever dream of matching.”

By the end, there was a faint bitterness in her voice that even she herself did not seem to notice.

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Chapter 629 A Dangerous Thought

Elowen’s smile faded slightly.

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“You’re beautiful, clever, and thoughtful,” she said gently but firmly. “Where exactly did you get the idea that you’re beneath anyone else?”

Scarlet lifted her head slightly as though she wanted to explain herself.

Before she could speak, however, hurried footsteps sounded outside the room.

Fast and heavy, filled with unmistakable energy. Even before the door opened, the voice arrived first.

“Ella! I heard you’re awake!”

Elspeth’s bright voice rang through the chamber loudly enough to startle the little birds perched beneath the stone eaves.

“I came to see you, and I brought gifts for you and the babies!”

Before the sentence had fully ended, she had already swept through the doorway.

Marissa entered behind her dressed far more modestly, her smile shy and restrained.

Scarlet wisely swallowed whatever she had meant to say. She bowed respectfully to Elowen, then greeted both Elspeth and Marissa properly before lowering her gaze and quietly slipping from the room.

The moment she stepped outside, sunlight spilled warmly across her.

Scarlet paused beneath the gallery corridor while laughter and cheerful conversation drifted from the chamber behind her.

Slowly, she reached up and touched her own cheek.

The skin beneath her fingers was smooth and warm.

She knew she was beautiful.

And she had noticed the way Draven looked at her.

That day at the palace, his eyes had lingered on her again and again.

But what did that really mean?

Men were always quick to lose themselves over a pretty face.

She had seen too many men like that before.

Back in those shameful years she never spoke about, those men had looked at her in exactly the same way Draven did now.

Some men hid it better than others.

That was the only difference.

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Chapter 629 A–Dangerous Thought

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If one day he learned the truth about her past, learned where she came from, what kind of woman she used to be, and all the things she had once done…

He would probably avoid her like a cursed thing.

He would likely feel ashamed that he had ever shown interest in her at all.

At the thought, Scarlet frowned faintly.

A breeze drifted through the open corridor, lifting the skirts of her gown lightly around her ankles.

Still.

This was enough.

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