Revealing the Duke's Secret by Roxie Brandon

Author:Roxie Brandon [Brandon, Roxie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Roxie Brandon
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 4

The Duke paced around his room nervously with a thousand thoughts whirring up inside of his brain. He could hardly grasp what events had just transpired – how was this even possible? Daphne knew of his deepest secret and he did not even have a clue, in fact, he inadvertently ended up marrying her! Was this fate’s way of playing a cruel joke on him?

He felt his head starting to hurt as he tried to consider the consequences of this new found source of information. The truth was, the Duke remembered that day all too well – a stain in the fabric of his memory that did not dissolve no matter what amount of time passed. He remembered the events of that day and had thought it was a long kept secret between him and his dead father but clearly, there was someone else that knew.

Truth was, there was no denying it – the Duke had been the one to pull the trigger and kill him. But there was more to that story than what met the eye – the Duke would never have done it if he had not thought that it was completely necessary. It was an act of self-preservation – for both him and his family.

The Duke’s father had been a perfect man in the eyes of the society but behind closed doors, he was the complete antithesis of the persona he put on for the crowd. The Duke’s father had a drinking habit and he seldom had any sober moments; he was a raging alcoholic with anger issues and he loved to take them out on his family.

On one similar day, he got drunk out of his mind after he lost a large sum of money when he was gambling and came home to relieve the stress. At the time, the Duke’s mother had been expecting a child – a little baby girl who was to be the Duke’s sister.

However, in his drunken rage, the Duke’s father forgot that fact entirely as he lashed out on his wife, causing her to miscarry their daughter. He then turned to the Duke, beating him severely. The loss was monumental for the Duke’s mother – she did not cope well and turned to alcohol to drown away her miseries. The Duke hated seeing her this way and his resentment towards his own father grew deeper and deeper as he saw that his father went back to his usual habits and lifestyle without an ounce of guilt about what he had done.

This vicious cycle of abuse continued on and it only served to water the poison tree that had been planted inside of the Duke’s mind against his own father. And one day, the tree gave its fruit when the Duke decided he needed to put an end to this – so he followed his father into the woods, shotgun in hand. He had not initially meant to use it but after seeing that his father felt no remorse about the daily suffering he bestowed on them whatsoever, the Duke made a decision to use it.

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