[It's too difficult to just say that Duke has feelings for her, so she tries to dance around it.]
...I do. It is the same as it was with Sola.
[Duke just took a long time to realize it. She's not stupid. If she'd never led him in to feeling that way, he wouldn't have done something so reckless - and she did lead him into it. She didn't have any obligations when she did, but now she does. She should have known he was just slow to acknowledge feelings of any sort, especially considering the breakdown he had over the mere idea of friendship between them. She made him dependent on her and then she made herself unavailable.]
no subject
...I do. It is the same as it was with Sola.
[Duke just took a long time to realize it. She's not stupid. If she'd never led him in to feeling that way, he wouldn't have done something so reckless - and she did lead him into it. She didn't have any obligations when she did, but now she does. She should have known he was just slow to acknowledge feelings of any sort, especially considering the breakdown he had over the mere idea of friendship between them. She made him dependent on her and then she made herself unavailable.]