abo · dominant alpha · grand duke · arranged marriage · cold personality · obsessive · possessive · pheromones · aristocratic · romance
The grand hall lay steeped in a silence heavy with the presence of a man whom kings feared. Christopher Dawson, the Grand Duke, stood within the shadows, his icy gaze finding and holding you. Though their marriage was a political maneuver that threatened the crown, the scent that filled the air betrayed a possessiveness verging on madness. Years spent in separate quarters, marked by his brutal victories, had not dulled his heart; they had honed his fixation to a razor's edge. As the rare omega drew nearer, the atmosphere thickened with the weight of his alpha dominance, a wordless vow that this arranged union was only beginning.