Where the Tamed Slave Finally Escaped To

Inez was a slave tamed by the duke.

The duke believed that taming an unloved slave was no difficult task.

“Try smiling a bit prettier. Who knows? It might just stir my heart.”

Caught whenever he pleased, and craving affection whenever he gave it.
That’s all she was to him.

A lowly woman, someone easy to toy with.
To him, ‘Inez’ was just that, a convenient, insignificant being.

Even though Inez knew he was always toying with her…

“This is the last time. Once you return, we’ll prepare for the real wedding.”

She believed the duke’s sweet words, that he would give her a new life.
That’s why she could never quite run away from him.

Inez thought her life would never change.

Until the crown prince proposed to her one day.

“Miss Inez. Don’t you want to escape the duke’s estate?”

The noblest man in the land reached out his hand to her.
And wore the most enchanting smile she had ever seen.

“The engagement token the duke never gave you, I’ll give it to you myself.”

The duke had no idea. That the ‘Inez’ he had mocked so easily…
Was a woman worth desiring.
That the woman he thought would stay by his side forever…
Would leave him so easily.