I_am_Creator

His whole life turned into a joke, when Leonardo Thawyne the proud son of Duke William Thawyne, came to know that he was not the real son but a swapped kid. And now to save his inheritance he would have to marry the real heiress.
Evangeline Rossador, a simple music teacher from a town, was content with teaching music to kids and having a garden in her home. But her whole life turned upside down when she was announced as betrothed to infamous cruel duke Leonardo as her father's last wish before dying.
They both were hardly accepting the fact that they were bound in a forced marriage when life played another game and she found herself standing in front of her died father.
Soon more deaths started to occur and they both find themselves standing in mid of many misunderstandings and conflicts.
How would this chaos be solved? And would they be able to find love in this politically enforced marriage?
“I asked what were you doing there?” she glared back at the roaring man who was trying to show his rights to her.
“I was dancing with the Earl Nickolas,” she replied, looking back in his eyes.
“Theodore go and bring the fingers of Earl who has dared to touch what is mine.” came the reply with an evil smirk.
“Now tell me, my dear wife,” he whispered as he came close to her, “which part of your body have he actually touched?

Evil Duke, Please Be Gentle!

Evelyn fanned her face when she felt the heat rising on her face. Was it due to the strong wine or because of the person speaking sweet nothing while standing too close to her for maintaining her rationality.

Well, at least she realized that it was not her illusion before she could make a fool of herself.

"My lord, I have already told you that you should refrain from making such jokes.

If my brother would have been here, he would have sliced your neck already." though she was complaining, her cheeks were still red but he was not sure whether it was from his words or the alcohol.

She drank it pretty fast so that it could affect her. That made him realize that he did not know about her torrent capacity of alcohol. Well, he did not know much about her in any form.

"Now I think that it is good that you forgot about me. I should court you slowly so that I could get a chance to know more about you.

[Bonus chapter] Let's bet.