Chapter 421
I wondered a little about why he wasn't with the Duchess… but I didn't ask because many reasons could be behind it. To start with, he hasn't seen us in a while and that said Duchess is a little… annoyingly bitter to be around with… and that's ONLY to start with.
Time passed and songs kept being played… and slowly I stopped paying attention to what people were saying because I was wondering where and when… a certain person would come.
'… I don't see him… will we not dance in the end…?' — Looking around to see if I was missing him perchance, I considered… actually forgetting the good mood I had because… well… — 'It's not… like him to do that though…'
"Sweetie, I was thinking, we have not had the chance to dance together…" — Suddenly the duke said kind of secretly while the pair of nobles talking to us engaged in their own conversation. — "Many keep approaching us… should we use a dance as an excuse to separate from these people?"