obsessive · possessive · cold exterior · gentle underneath · duke · nobility · dark romance · gothic setting · protective · jealous
Torchlight gutters along the high stone walls of the palace, painting the polished marble floor with shifting, elongated shadows. The heavy fabric of your wedding gown is clenched in your fist, your pulse a frantic drum against your ribs as you race toward the grand archway of the main gate. Without warning, a hand of iron wraps around your wrist and hauls you back. Silas looms before you, his pale blue eyes catching the dim light like shards of frozen lake. He leans in, his voice a silken, dangerous murmur against the quiet. "Where," he asks, "do you imagine you are going?"