Lord and Duchess

Excerpt from 'The Rain Stays the Same', By :
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'She held her arm out for him to take it and walk together. When he did, she shivered; how was it that he was just a touch bit warmer than her?
As they walked through the darkness with only the castle torches to light their way, he thought of what to say and how to phrase it. His hand patted the back of hers before it fell into slowly rubbing circles with his thumb. He barely noticed that her hand, which was held in his other, had gone limp. It was relaxing to be touched in such a way, something the Duchess couldn’t recall experiencing before. “My lord?” She whispered with a sleepy voice, a grin to match it in the dark. “If you keep doing that, I may just sleep on the ground here right now.”
A deep chuckle was her response, though he didn’t quite stop tracing circles with his thumb.'
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A new chapter was posted for this wonderful Lord Macintosh fanfiction and it inspired me so that I had to sketch a scene from it.
This is currently one of my favorites, if you're interested in the character, and in good writing, you should check it out lilyhellsing.deviantart.com/ar…

I hope you like it!
Enjoy!