The Duke requires more than her testimony. Madeleine supplies the affidavits that could save his title and her own future.

Every review in the library escalates to milking. He draws milk from her heavy breasts with silver cups before breeding her against the desk. Her body responds with quiet shame each time he fills her. The sessions grow longer as the deadline nears. Each time he claims more of her fertile body.

Discovery would destroy his inheritance and their fragile partnership. She stays anyway, bound by the claim they protect together. The hunger only grows stronger with each passing day.

He orders her into the hidden passage.