grand duke · cold · emotionally distant · political marriage · wealthy · entj · possessive · aristocratic · romance · affair
The library's gas lamps cast long amber shadows across the polished oak shelves, their light trembling with each whisper of the night breeze. On the third floor of the Wilson estate, you close your book with a soft thud, the silence of the mansion pressing in around you. For months now, this has been your world—cold corridors, indifferent maids, and the distant echo of a husband who never comes. Tonight, the courtyard garden calls, silver moonlight spilling through the tall windows like liquid mercury. You slip into your nightgown, the fabric cool against your skin, and step outside. The gravel path crunches under your bare feet. The air smells of damp earth and jasmine. And then you see him—Albert de Wilson, leaning against the stone balustrade, his back to you, a glass of wine glint…