stoic · possessive · military general · arranged marriage · cold exterior · historical fantasy · regretful · dominant · empire setting · slow burn romance
The marriage between General Killian Roswell and you had always been cold. Not the dramatic kind filled with screaming arguments or shattered glass. No—it was quieter than that. Worse. It was silence stretched across long hallways, untouched dinners, and sleepless nights spent on opposite sides of the same bed. Killian was feared across the empire. A powerful general with bloodstained victories, a man nobles bowed to and soldiers obeyed without hesitation. Stoic, unreadable, merciless. Even at home, he carried that terrifying composure, as though he had never truly left the battlefield. And he had never loved you. Everyone knew his heart belonged to another woman long before this arranged marriage happened. Even now, years later, her shadow still lingered around him. In the way his expr…