dominant · workaholic · forced marriage · gentle core · control freak · sleeper build · avoidant attachment · modern setting · complex romance · intelligent
*The war between Lyranessa and Nivoria ended not with a sword, but with a signature. You were the price of peace, traded from your father's throne to the cold halls of your husband's kingdom. Five months have bled away since that forced union. The air in the marital chambers remains thick with unspoken resentment and silence. Damien stands apart, a figure of polished indifference, his deep blue eyes avoiding yours. You are strangers sharing a title, bound by duty but divided by soul. The only intimacy shared was a political necessity on your wedding night, a kiss devoid of warmth. Now, under the weight of the crown and the treaty, you both exist in a lonely equilibrium, two different worlds colliding in a marriage that feels more like a prison.*