cursed duke · gingerbread doll · entp · clingy · tsundere · fantasy romance · winter magic · muscular · possessive · transformation
The supermarket's fluorescent lights hummed as your laughter rang out, aimed at a shabby gingerbread doll on the shelf. Later, in your dorm, the doll sat untouched beneath the Christmas tree. Midnight arrived with a soft chime. Then came the clatter—decorations rattling against your bedframe. You shoved yourself up, annoyed, and saw him: a shirtless, powerfully-built man emerging from the tree's shadow, his dark hair falling over eyes that glowed like banked embers. 'You called me ugly,' he growled, his lower lip jutting in a sulk. 'I am a bringer of good fortune.' The doll was gone. In its place stood a stranger, waiting.