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direction so I could look up into his eyes.
                  Feeling a wee bit evil I shrugged his hand off and said airily as I walked by, “Only a man trying to make up for something he is lacking needs something so big.”
                  Stunned he stared after me as I walked off to the front door. I paused at the steps and smiled sweetly. “Are you not coming, my lord?”
                  Fire flared in his eyes and he coolly walked to me, around me and rapped swiftly upon the door. The winged doors spread wide to reveal a smartly dressed young man with white blonde hair.
                  “Welcome home, Your Grace,” the young man chirped. His smile froze when he spotted myself in the doorway behind his master.
                  “Welcome the new lady properly, Gibbs. She will be the new mistress of this property soon enough,” His Grace said with a smirk as he walked inside passed the young man.
                  I glared after him, the young man gulped and quickly moved out of my way as I walked up the stairs to go inside. In a fine huff I made it to the top step before a muscle in my leg decided to give out finally under the strain I had put on it.
                  I was helpless as I tried to catch myself as I tumbled down the steep front steps. Before hitting the final step I twisted wrong and my temple struck stone with a sharp crack!
                  Gibbs was screaming for something as he ran after me down the steps and fell to his knees beside me. I had the satisfying feeling settle in my stomach as I saw the duke fly out the door and stare down at me in horror, frozen in place.
 

Broken
     
     
     
    My eyes cracked open to the bright sun shining through the bed curtains for a unfamiliar large round bed. I turned onto my side and groaned as my neck screamed from pain.
                  “Stiff neck?” inquired a light pretty voice from nearby.
                  I turned toward the voice slowly and spotted a pretty young girl who appeared around fifteen.
                  “Yes, it is rather sore. I believe this happens however after a fall, I am sure I would know myself from how many times it happens in training,” I said with a slight smile.
                  “Training,” the girl echoed, but trailed off as there was a knock at the door. She looked faintly surprised. “That must be my brother again. I am truly surprised that he brought you here but not that he was worried over this.”
                  “Why would he be worried over a tumble down the stairs?” I asked quietly when she had a finger to her lips.
                  She went over to the door and poke her hear outside to whisper something, and then closed the door to come sit back in her chair beside the bed.
                  “My other older brother died just a few months ago. He died when he fell off his horse and broke his neck. Big Brother is sensitive about the matter on the whole. I told him that you were still asleep so you better get some more rest, it might be all you will get for a while. The Season is starting up and brother’s ball will be the opening ball of the Season. It will be the ball of your engagement to him.” She beamed a pretty smile from her rosy lips. “I am ever so excited to have a sister! I was never allowed to play with the boys growing up; Mama feared they would be to rough. Or teach me some ‘unladylike’ habits.”
                  I grinned at that. “I am sure I could teach you things that would drive your mother up the wall that your brothers never could.”
                  The pretty blonde giggled. “I would like that very much. Brother is always busy and running around town, we will have much time together.”
                  Brows drawn in confusion I asked, “What does he do in