Chương 267: Legally Defending Your Rights

Even after the Duke and his seductive secretary laid in the wakes of their aggressive cuddling, he still hadn't hit that eureka moment of why Duke Wright would be so mad at him for such a small business to the point of personally sending a derogatory painting.

Besides, judging by how his secretary had described it, he was beginning to have fewer reasons to believe that it had anything to him personally, and more like his name was being used as a cover-up for the interest of a few lesser nobles who just happened to suck up to him.

Regardless, the Southern Duke had ordered his secretary to investigate the case more thoroughly; If there was any clash of interest between his men and Duke Wright's, just let the old man have his day. After all, "He's dangerously close to the end of his mortality, which might fuel him with a kind of bravado that compels crazy behaviors. We really shouldn't attract his ire!"