The Duke's Masked Wife Chapter 203

203 The benefits of a wealthy husband (1)

“I’m so sorry but you have to admit that was partially your fault,” Alessandra stated as she inspected where she accidentally hit Edgar.

“You have to admit that you are intentionally wounding , Alessandra. What do you need, grandmother? You’ve been married for many years. Surely you must know not to interrupt newlyweds when they are alone,” said Edgar.

Alessandra pinched his hand, wishing she had hit him harder before.

“I liked to think I raised you well enough that you would not fool around with present in the house and when we are ant to go out together,” Rose replied but then rembered a situation in the past. “Well, there was that one ti in your youth when you sneaked a young lady onto the property.”

For the first ti in his life, Edgar felt like kicking his grandmother out of his ho. Alfred could join her too.

“Don’t mind . I’ll talk to you later after you have gotten dressed, Edgar. See you soon dear,” Rose said to Alessandra.

Alessandra remained silent while Rose left.

“Alessandra-”

“I don’t care, Edgar. I don’t care about who you have been with before you and I got married. I have a feeling she’s trying to annoy you so I don’t know if it is true like when it happened with Alfred. It is a joke I do not enjoy but I only care that I am the only woman in your life. That matters to right now. You should get dressed. On your own,” Alessandra added as she was not going to help him strip.

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Alessandra was not bothered by what Rose said compared to what Alfred said because she disliked the idea of Edgar having another woman in the ho they shared. A ho where she laid her head at night and was uncomfortable thinking of another woman being there. Edgar being with a girl in his youth was normal. She heard the servants once discussing their teenage romances and how they had to sneak around at night to see each other.

If anything, she envied not experiencing a teenage romance. Sothing she could look back and cherish though it wouldn’t an she still loved that person.

“She’s referring to a dare between Dominic and . We both had to sneak a girl into my grandmother’s ho without getting caught, to play ridiculous gas. Dominic claid I would be the loser so naturally, I had to prove him wrong. We were both caught. Trust , the last place I would look to have sex with soone would be in my grandmother’s ho. I had my own ho so there was no reason to sneak around.”

“When did you have your own ho?” Alessandra asked for the sole purpose of getting an idea of the age Edgar first slept with soone.

“Sixteen but if you are trying to ask when I lost my virginity, I was seventeen. It was a girl I t at a party. We t a few tis after that but then stopped after it was obvious nothing would co from it. I have not seen her since then. Let’s be clear, I am not a manwhore,” Edgar stated as he needed it drilled into her head that he was not going around sleeping with many won.

“Are you the sa man who frequents the red light district with the claim that you are reading a book? I’ve seen the libraries you have at ho to know you were never in need of another location to read.”

Edgar sighed and ran his right hand through his hair. Never would he have expected going to the red light district for information would get him in trouble one day. “I truly go there with a book to sit and listen to the drunken n blabber about the things they do or have witnessed. I frequent the sa woman and have her sit on the bed to get so rest. I have not visited since our wedding so that your reputation would not be hard.”

Alessandra found his words to be believable because of the things she heard her father say when he was truly drunk. It was funny to picture Edgar sitting down in a room with a woman ant to have sex with him but he was writing down the things he heard. “As you have always been honest with , I will believe you. Still, how many won have you been with?”

Edgar thought about it for a mont and then answered, “Five. I was normally sleeping with one person for so ti as there was an understanding when only wanted to fulfill our sexual desires. Once feelings beca involved, I moved on.”

It was less than Alessandra thought but given how Edgar was easily annoyed with others, it was understandable that there would only be a handful of won he would consider sleeping with. “It’s a bit unfair that you have slept with soone before . Don’t you think I should sleep with at least one man before you and I sleep together?” She joked.

“Go ahead,” Edgar smiled.

Alessandra stared at Edgar in shock. She was expecting him to reply no to her joke. “Are you sure?”

“Yes,” he calmly replied. Edgar picked up a strand of her hair and twirled it around his finger. “Pick soone and I shall bring them to you.”

“Dead or alive?”

“Dead obviously,” Edgar’s smile widened but his eyes had a darkness in them. “I have no intentions of sharing you with anyone else. I can’t change the fact that I have slept with won in the past but I intend to only bed you in the future. I expect the sa from you. Any man who tries to get in the midst of us,” he paused to pull a strand of her hair and enjoyed seeing her wince. “I shall wipe his existence from this world.”

“I was only kidding. It’s highly unlikely you would have any competition. Curse girl, rember?” Alessandra pointed at her mask. “Besides, I have no intentions of having feelings for anyone else.”

“You’d be surprised by how many n in the future will realize you are a hidden treasure. Then I’d be forced to fill my dungeon up. Now, unless you are going to take up the offer to help strip-Ha,” Edgar chuckled because of the speed Alessandra turned and walked away to let him get dressed on his own. “It’s only a matter of ti.”

“Not there isn’t,” Alessandra replied, sticking to being confident that she would never help him strip. “That man,” she said and shook her head. There was no one in the world to compete with Edgar for her to consider being with soone else.

Alessandra was used to his personality by now and deep down she was starting to enjoy so of the tis he would tease her but would take that to her grave.

Alessandra walked downstairs to be with the others to discuss what they plan to do in town and who was going in which carriage as they would most definitely need two. The first thing she saw as soon as she reached the bottom floor was Rose and Alfred in a corner having a serious conversation.

Alessandra figured there was sothing romantic going on between the two and decided to look for Sally to avoid interrupting their conversation. Alessandra went out the front door and found Sally sitting by herself waiting for everyone else. “Hi, Sally. Oh, you’ve gotten dressed up too,” Alessandra comnted on the light blue dress with pink ribbons Sally currently wore. It was different from her normal attire.

“I thought I should dress up to go around the town. It was one of my old dresses I got to keep while everything else was sold. I don’t think it suits anymore,” Sally shyly placed a fallen strand of hair behind her ear. It had been a while since she got a chance to dress up.

“That is not true. It suits you. So much so that I think Caleb won’t be able to properly protect today,” Alessandra said, bringing attention to the man standing by the carriages pretending like he was not looking at Sally. “I think your singles club is slowly falling apart.”

Sally looked out at the carriages where Caleb stood and when their eyes t, she turned away. “I have no intentions of leaving the singles club,” said Sally.

“I see. I can hardly wait for the two of us to have fun today. Don’t mind that Edgar’s grandmother is here. Relax and enjoy yourself. We’ll stick together today.”

Sally would enjoy spending ti with Alessandra but already knew the Duke would be glued to her. For so reason, he was buzzing around the Duchess more than normal since they ca on the trip. “The Duke will wish to spend ti with you.”

“And I wish to avoid that man-”

“Why?” Edgar questioned.

Alessandra’s heart rushed for a mont after being caught by him. It should be impossible for Edgar to have already changed his clothes but when she turned around, the only thing different about his clothes was his shirt. He had the sa casual look as before. “Why did you only change your shirt?”

“What do you an?” Edgar looked down at his clothes. “I also changed my shoes. If a certain soone had helped stripped-”

“Edgar!” Alessandra exclaid.

‘Luckily, I am used to this,’ Sally thought.