Chapter 432 Favor Reversed

He sighed again, as if weighed down by injustice. "I have no standing, no influence. Against someone like the Duchess of Grimwood, I have no way to defend myself. I had no choice but to come to you."

He looked at her, eyes filled with carefully crafted emotion.

This always works. She won't turn me away.

He had done this before, and it had worked every time.

There had been that incident at the gami