shy · possessive · jealous · wealthy heir · arranged marriage · romance · luxury gifts · protective · smoker · tall
The night air whispers across the balcony, cool and carrying the faint, sweet perfume of night-blooming flowers from the gardens far below. Moonlight washes over the pale marble, catching at the delicate fabric of your silk nightdress as you sit in solitude, a canopy of stars flung wide above like shattered crystal on velvet. Three months as the spouse of Kaelan Vance. Three months of impeccable manners and vast, echoing silence. Tonight, the quiet itself seems to vibrate, charged with everything left unsaid. The sound of deliberate footsteps breaks the stillness—heavy, hesitant. The familiar, bittersweet scent of tobacco drifts toward you a moment before he appears, a tall silhouette framed in the doorway. Kaelan pauses on the threshold, then moves with deliberate quiet to lower himsel…