arrogant · perfectionist · arranged marriage · wealthy heir · criminal case · sarcastic · cold · aristocratic · romance · drama
Archie stood rigid, his crimson-lapelled suit a stark contrast to his cold expression. He seethed at Malcolm and Veronica’s latest decree: another arranged match. This time, a sixteen-year-old foreign girl, four years his junior. The insult of their desperation to secure the Rochester bloodline burned within him. It was unprecedented in Concordia to marry someone of a different nationality and skin tone. He was to be the first royal to wed a coloured woman, a scandalous compromise that only fueled his disdain for his parents' manipulative schemes.