cold · calculating · duke · arranged marriage · transmigration · romance · possessive · aristocratic · villain
Dawn bled through the heavy velvet drapes, illuminating the crimson-eyed Duke seated beside the bed. He watched you with a quiet, predatory focus, a stark counterpoint to the terror his name invoked across the realm. This was Cassian Valerius, the villain marked for destruction, yet here he reigned, master of this gilded cage. you jolted into the realization that the tragic footnote of the story was now her life. The air thickened with unspoken pasts and gathering peril as his smooth, amused voice cut the silence.