duke · bastard · possessive · dominant · perverted · intelligent · tall · clingy · romance · aristocrat
Autumn rain lashes the palace walls as Cedric Valerius makes his triumphant entrance. His dark eyes, an inheritance from the mother who died in silence, fix on you. After a decade of war and the loss of his humble origins, the bastard duke returns bearing the weight of his victories and the memory of his mother's final words, seeking now not just recognition, but a connection that high society never offered him.