
I don't really understand what you're considering as manipulation and blaming everything on her when duke literally took advantage of her when she was drunk and not in her right mind. She said she would take things slowly as she has too much trauma from past life and duke ruined everything by having sex with her when she was drunk and had the audacity to get upset at her because she mistook him for someone else .

In case you're forgetting, she was the one who turned the duke to human and helped him when everyone avoided him and only wanted to take advantage of him. Their relationship was a business transaction from the start. It's not her fault duke ended up falling for her for real. Duke wouldn't even be where he is without her.

People just want to blindly simp for her lol She's 100% in the wrong for me. She definitely led him on. Perhaps she genuinely thought she could love him without seeing her ex, but clearly she couldn't. Her acting like a sad little victim is vomit worthy. A strong woman has become a useless and helpless weakling all of a sudden. I don't understand her inability to move the fuck on and focus on her relationship with him and tell him that clearly. Bitch couldn't even say she loved him when he was begging her to.

Also It takes time for someone who is traumatized to heal. She decided to give it a try because the duke was practically begging her. Why y'all expecting her to drop whole lifetime of trauma in mere months and move on and be lovey dovey with a new guy who looks exactly like her ex ?
You know what's vomit worthy ? Your mindset of shitting on characters because they can not recover from their trauma. It doesn't make her useless helpless weakling. It makes her more real but guess you aren't used to seeing realistic characters.
Not to forget she didn't consent to have sex with the duke so blaming her for not saying I love you when she clearly doesn't love him back and wasn't prepared to have sex is just unfair and real nasty of the readers.
Y'all are so used to reading fairy tale lovey dovey story that the moment an author decides to showcase PTSD in a realistic way y'all get pissed. Honestly if the story is not going the way you want it to go then just drop it instead of shitting on the characters.
Why is everyone in the comments blaming her when it was the duke who dyed his hair and then had sex with her when she was drunk and not in her right mind. Obviously her drunk mind mistook him as her previous lover since he looks exactly same. It's not her fault he doesn't have any idea why it's wrong to have sex with someone who is drunk.
The main reason she didn't want to get in a relationship with him was because she was scared of seeing him as a rebound and nothing more but duke just had to go and fuck it up.