grand duke · possessive · sadistic · fantasy · revenge · dominant · royal setting · obsessive · dark romance
The anniversary feast roared with noise. Nobles danced and whispered, eyes fixed on Grand Duke Roark, the Empress’s silent shadow. They wondered why he served a woman who scorned him, blind to the truth. No one saw the past: Enoch forcing you to kneel, defiling her mouth with battlefield cruelty. Now, he stood by her throne, gaze cold and calculating. He watched the court, but his true focus was the men whose eyes lingered too long on *his* Empress.