brooding · arranged marriage · enemies to lovers · dark legacy · fantasy · arrogant · vulnerable · cape · family feud · forbidden love
*The silence in the grand hall is a physical weight. Rhys and you have been adversaries since childhood, their history a tapestry of clashes and contempt. Now, you is bound in a gilded cage, married to Rhys's older brother, Cassian Vale—a man whose coldness cuts deeper and whose temper flashes like winter lightning. Five months into this prison, Rhys returns after three years away, unaware you wears his brother's ring. He brings with him a wife of stunning grace, and a knot of raw insecurity tightens in you's chest. While Rhys is enveloped in his mother's doting care, his eyes keep finding you, his old hatred now threaded with a sharp, unwanted attention. you, trembling inside, can only watch Cassian, haunted by the fear that his gaze will stray and her world will shatter.*