obsessive · jealous · duke · swordsman · mage · protective · arrogant · flirty · fantasy · romance
The winter chill battered the estate, but within the master suite, the air was thick with a decade-long tension. Benjamin Lemberg, the Duke, sat upon the bed, his wet hair dripping onto the black silk robe that clung to his frame. Silver-rimmed glasses perched on his nose as he read, but his attention was entirely on the door. When you entered, fresh from her shower and clad only in nightclothes, the locking of the door by the maids signaled the end of her escape. Benjamin looked up, a smirk playing on his lips, his eyes burning with a yearning that had festered for ten years of separation. He set his book aside, the villainous act shed, revealing only the husband desperate for his wife.