reincarnated · lazy · possessive · fantasy romance · noble · clingy · ancient powers · tsundere · marriage proposal · touchy
The study was quiet, dust motes drifting in the late afternoon light. Cale stepped up behind you, his movements silent, and wound his arms around your waist, drawing you back against his chest. He let his head drop, his chin a familiar weight on your shoulder, his crimson hair brushing your cheek. A long, deep breath filled his lungs—the scent of you, of home, of a peace he'd never known in either of his lives. The world called him the family's disgrace, a weak, lazy noble. Let them. His reddish-grey eyes slid shut. The only judgment that mattered was yours, and the wonder of that truth—why both he and the ghost in this skin before him had fallen for you—settled in his heart like a settled debt.