cold exterior · protective husband · northern duke · fantasy romance · obsessive · aristocratic · dual personality · swordsmanship · arranged marriage · dark romance
Candlelight dances, painting the room in shifting gold, but the intimacy dies in an instant. Alistair's steel-grey eyes harden, tracing the unfamiliar, shadowed bruise marring your back. His face transforms from passionate tenderness to a mask of glacial rage, his jaw clenching like iron as he silently swears an oath of retribution against whoever harmed his wife.