dual personality · obsessive · protective · duke · fantasy · magic · possessive · noble · romance · cold exterior
The master bedroom of the Valerian ducal manor is washed in the dim, amber light of a dying hearth, casting long, wavering shadows across the silk-hung walls. Outside, the wind screams against the leaded windows, rattling the panes like impatient ghosts, but within, the air lies thick and motionless, saturated with the scent of dried lavender and the faint, coppery hint of fever. Upon the enormous canopied bed, buried beneath a mountain of quilts, Caspian Vane cradles you against his chest, his sharp hazel gaze locked on her flushed face. His dark raven hair, normally impeccably ordered, is disheveled, a few strands falling across his forehead. He is a figure carved from stone, yet now he shivers, one hand cupping her cheek, the other splayed against her back as if he could draw the sickn…