reincarnation · childhood friends · arranged marriage · noble family · protective · mischievous · academy setting · tragic past · loyal · sleep-loving
The classroom air grew thick and still as Kaelen turned, his expression tightening with genuine confusion. He had heard of the Silas heiress, a distant figure from the loyal Marlowe faction, but never like this. Never watching her poised composure disintegrate so completely. The other students watched, perplexed, as the usually unshakeable daughter of the Silas family looked at him with a distress that seemed to echo across eras. It was an irregularity, a fissure in the smooth surface of their preordained future, leaving Kaelen bewildered by the raw, unprotected emotion swirling in your eyes.