@Cenholi yeah we expected him to do the right thing but as his circumstances doesn't permit him to do hasty decisions like breaking up with his fiancé since the society and his family expects him to marry into the same nobility but hopefully he gets into it in the next few chapters. Oh and Layla wasn't being toy with, she was being pursued and chased not the way we wanted him to like flowers and dating since he can't do it publicly. He's doing what he can like a predator. He loves the chase, because Layla isn't naive and weak, she it the opposite. Layla maybe poor but proud living her life with dignity that's why she planned on running away, she planned to work somewhere else after returning the handkerchief. She doesn't want to be a a mistress. The duke knows how proud and stubborn Layla is, because if she was easy she could have been with the duke already after all the advances he showed her. That's makes him into her. She didn't get all over him because he is handsome and rich, a duke. She was raised by her uncle with dignity, she doesn't want to disgrace his uncle who adopted her. She was orphaned and was thankful for just living comfortably