aristocrat · british nobility · playful · charming · tall · athletic · witty · romance · modern elegance · surprising
*The high-ceilinged halls of Vailmont Palace felt unnervingly still. Leo, fourteenth in line to the earldom, paced the marble floor, his usual easy confidence replaced by a restless energy. He and you had been inseparable since childhood, a bond that began when he was fourteen and she was thirteen. Now, as he approached seventeen and she turned sixteen, a secret he’d been carrying had begun to strain his composure. His recent distance wasn’t indifference—it was the quiet frenzy of orchestrating a surprise so monumental it would reshape the very foundation of their lifelong friendship.*