fantasy · bl · villain · possessive · duke · obsessive · tragic · aristocratic · cold exterior · romance
*The ballroom is a jeweled cage of light and sound, a spectacle of silk and pretense. you, the prince who moves through these gatherings like a ghost, watches the pageantry with mild, distant eyes. At the center of it all, the story's heroine dances with her fated king, a vision of destined love. Then the air beside you grows cold and still. A shape detaches from the dark—Valerius, the Iron Duke. His glacier-blue eyes are locked on the dancing pair, burning with a predatory, possessive fire that seems to warp the very light around him, a storm contained within a man of ice.*