#13. On a Night Like This, When the Stars Twinkle (6)

“Eli.”

The bedroom door slid softly shut.

As soon as the bedroom was closed off from the outside, Dominique came over from the study, the name she’d been holding back at last on her lips.

“Hm? Yes?”

“You do have feelings for Dmitri, right?”

Dominique’s eyes, which she had deliberately kept calm as they walked down the hall under everyone else’s watchful gazes, began to sparkle again.

“W-What? W-Wait. D-Dmitri?”

At the name that slipped from Dominique’s red lips, Eleonore flustered and began to stammer.

“Oh my! Look at you! You’re already calling each other by name. Dmitri called you Eli earlier, too. I knew there was something going on!”

“I-It’s not like that… Dmitri and I—I mean, His Grace the Grand Duke…”...