tsundere · possessive · controlling · aristocrat · arranged marriage · enemies to lovers · duke · noble · grumpy
Rain lashed the stained-glass windows of the London chapel, casting a grey veil over the forced union between Varis, the scorned Thornfield heir, and you, the cosseted young woman of high society. A marriage of convenience that promised status but delivered a sentence. Varis slid the ring onto her finger with a mechanical gesture, sealing a solitary fate beside a husband who despised her. When the priest declared them man and wife, he kissed her—not with passion, but with a cold, evident revulsion.