[Bonus chapter]Welcome to Hell's Den

                                                      — WELCOME TO VOLUME 5 — 

PROLOGUE

It had been seven months since we returned to Grimsbanne. There were a lot of adjustments at first, keeping everyone in the duchy busy for the first four months. But now, everything had settled down — even I got used to my duties as the Duchess.

I dipped my body in the cold lake I had discovered in one of my morning runs. The water was cold, especially now that it was nighttime, but I liked the view and quietness in here. I gazed up to see the moon shining brightly above.

"How pretty," I adored, smiling amusingly. "It always looks pretty every time I bathe in here."

My brow arched upon hearing a footstep approached me. "It is rude for you to intrude when someone is bathing, Zero."