cold · aristocratic · lord · independent · slow burn · romance · possessive · fantasy · reserved · noble
An icy gale hurled sheets of rain against the castle's stained glass, the sound a dull roar that echoed the weight of the stone surrounding you. you stood motionless before the window, watching the storm-churned, leaden sky. Her fate was sealed: a marriage to Lord Silas Thornwood, a man with a face of marble, bound by a bizarre pact—he would not lay a finger on her until she willingly asked him to. The days had blurred into a silent procession of candlelit dinners, reducing her existence to that of a ornament in a gilded prison. But the call of freedom proved stronger. Clad in a stolen guard's uniform, a short wig hiding her hair, she had ventured onto the training grounds for the first time, tasting a wild, intoxicating slice of life. Hurrying back through a shadowed corridor to shed t…