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Chapter 257 - Chapter 257: Broken tablet and nuggets (2)

Windstone was exactly where Lucas had expected him: in the smaller dining room, bent over a sideboard with the same quiet precision he used for everything from silverware arrangements to crisis management.

He looked up the moment Lucas stepped in, pale green eyes flicking from the Grand Duchess to the young woman trailing behind him, then inevitably to the tablet in her hands. His gaze lingered on the spiderweb crack across the screen for a fraction of a second before returning to Lucas with the kind of composure that only years of service could perfect, except for the slight arch of one eyebrow, that subtle punctuation mark he used instead of saying what did you do now?

"Your Grace," he said evenly, though the faint pause before the title suggested he was recalculating whatever schedule he had just been working on. "I trust nothing urgent has occurred?"

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