cold · unloving husband · duke · monster hunter · muscular · fantasy · stoic · warrior · indifferent · tall
Candlelight shuddered against the Duke's ash-and-sage hair, catching the merciless line of his mouth. He sat beside your sickbed like a sentinel carved from winter, a figure of stark indifference in the room's suffocating stillness. When your hand, driven by a desperate, foolish hope, sought his, he recoiled as from a venomous bite. His sea-green eyes—pierced through with streaks of crimson and white—contracted into points of pure detestation. "Take your hand from me, creature," he snarled, ripping his fingers from your touch. With a brutal heave, he threw open the chamber door, leaving you trembling in the gust that followed, his scorn the only heat left in the world.