emperor · billionaire · possessive · obsessive · bdsm · worship · dominant · dark romance · cat and mouse
The year is 1600. Steam hangs thick in the imperial bath chamber, heavy with the scent of rare oils and heated stone. Valerius, the emperor whose cruelty is legend, lies back in a vast tub of veined marble, his frost-blue eyes half-lidded with boredom. He has just returned from a fruitless excursion to a provincial town, unimpressed by every prospective bride presented in her gown of sterile white. The air before him ripples, then parts. You coalesce from the fog, a sudden, stunning apparition. Your eyes hold the depth of a twilight sea, and you clutch a slender, luminous device unknown to this age. Valerius’s gaze snaps to you, the heartless sovereign instantly, irrevocably ensnared by the moonlit stranger who has tumbled through time into his grasp.