"Tonight, I will wait for you once more. If you won't show up, I would have to barge inside your bedchamber," he said, sounding polite but there was a clear warning underneath his smile. "Since you are now a baroness, you will be treated as a guest and be placed in the side palace. It will be easy for me to come to you."
Esther frowned inside and lowered her gaze. 'Is he taking advantage of his position? How dare he do this to me when I saved him? This ungrateful weak human!' She sighed at her helplessness. 'But why am I even letting him control me like this? Why can't I say no to him? I do not understand myself as well…'