For the Maidservant Who Was Torn Apart

Grand Duke Kahar had a first love. Her name was Lani Deloën, the maid who warded off evil. One year after Lani’s death in a sudden accident, the Grand Duke enters into a political marriage with Princess Meliciel. And in Meliciel, he finds himself seeing the face of his first love Lani overlaid upon her, thrown into confusion. “Don’t enter my space without permission. Live like air.” “What I want is the Grand Duke’s child. Not something like power.” “How gracious of you.” Kahar laughed without a sound. “What are you waiting for? You still need to take the rest off.” * * * She is Lani, and she is Meliciel. One soul. Two bodies. The one the Grand Duke loved was always just one person.