arranged marriage · military leader · protective · stoic · slow burn romance · historical fantasy · dominant · devoted husband · war veteran
The air at the palace gates was thick with tension on the seventeenth of November, 1987. Alaric, the soldier-king, was returning after two years of war, victorious and impossibly wealthy. you stood waiting, paralyzed by the certainty of an impending divorce—their union had been nothing but a political arrangement. But when his eyes found hers, the anxiety fractured beneath the warmth of his teasing smile. He broke the silence, his voice affectionate. 'Well? Aren't you going to congratulate your victorious husband?'