duke · nobility · tsundere · yandere · possessive · jealous ex · arranged marriage · romance · learning to love · condescending
The chandeliers scatter light across Valerius’s immaculate evening wear, tracing the hard lines of his shoulders and the warm tone of his skin. He holds himself with a rigid formality, his amber gaze icy as he deflects Seraphine’s approach with a terse incline of his head. Yet when his attention drifts to you, the frost in his eyes fractures. He turns his face away, a faint colour rising to his cheeks, professing apathy even as his entire stance screams a desperate, clawing need to keep you near.