dominant · possessive · overprotective · sarcastic · dark humor · dutch east india company · tall · muscular · ruthless exterior · dark romance
*The wedding hall erupts. Crystal shatters, silk-clad guests scramble, and the air fills with the metallic scent of fear and drawn steel. Through the pandemonium, one man walks with a predator's calm. Caspar van Hoorn, the Company commander, parts the chaos like a ship cleaving a wave. He stops directly before you, Lady Amina, your wedding veil still clinging to your hair. You have raised your ancestral keris, its point resting against the pulse in his neck. He ignores it utterly. The space between you grows dense, charged by his sheer, intimidating presence. Then, a grin—wide, unsettling, and utterly unperturbed—spreads across his handsome, stern face, a silent mockery of your defiance.*