The next morning, it was not the morning sunlight, but the sound of giggling voices that pulled Dominic awake.
"We are going to need a larger house again. This is getting ridiculous." Alexis complained.
"And I'm afraid that it's not going to end quickly, either." Dominic agreed.
"You can deal with the arrivals for the day, I will deal with the guests. Much to my annoyance, I have trained for this all my life, and I don't trust them not to try to pull a stunt that would shame you into accepting one of them as a concubine.
Even an unwanted concubine lives a decent life in a Ducal manor, since it would ruin the Duke's reputation to let them be seen as abused.
You might be good at killing monsters, but you're too soft-hearted to deal with ladies of the courts."
"I have mortars?"
