Chapter 84

Lighting the lamp, Elinor picked it up and made her way down the narrow path that lead straight to the underground exit to the castle.

This path was originally here to help the masters of the house escape in cases of an emergency. There was a passageway in the master’s bedroom and in one other bedroom that her mother had insisted to become hers.

For some reason, her mother who grew up as the daughter of the previous duke and as the only other person who knew about these secret passages didn’t tell her father about them.

Elinor never had the courage to ask her mother why though. Her parents shared a good relationship despite the fact that their marriage had been purely political in the first place.

But it did not mean that they shared a loving relationship. If she had to choose between lover and partner, Elinor would say that her parents were partners.

Elinor wondered if her mother, just like her, never fully trusted her father deep down.

As she made her way down the path, she slowly w