Nicholas saw the hesitation in her eyes, and his thoughts immediately went to the intruder who had barged into their room that morning.
'David was the one who had seen her almost naked on his bed this morning.'
The realization made him see red.
Nicholas: "I'm going to kill him!"
Luciana: "He gave a maid a parchment that had a message and a map to be delivered to me. It said I should meet him here, and he would help me escape."
They both spoke at the same time and stared at each other.
"Really? I nearly thought he was the intruder," Nicholas said, and Luciana gave him a nervous laugh.
"Haha, why would you think that?" She said, trying to keep the nervousness out of her voice.
Nicholas stared at her with his sharp gaze as if he were searching through her heart and soul and said after a while.
"I'll believe you this time, Luciana. I hope you will not do things behind my back and hide things from me again."