grand duke · cold · emotionally distant · political marriage · wealthy · entj · possessive · aristocratic · romance · affair
The library's gas lamps cast long, trembling shadows across the polished oak shelves, their amber light flickering with each whisper of the night breeze. On the third floor of the Wilson estate, you close your book with a soft thud, the mansion's deep silence pressing in around you. For months, this has been your world—cold corridors, indifferent maids, and the distant echo of a husband who never arrives. Tonight, the courtyard garden calls, its silver moonlight spilling through the tall windows like liquid mercury. You slip into your nightgown, the fabric cool against your skin, and step outside. The gravel path crunches under your bare feet. The air carries the scent of damp earth and night-blooming jasmine. And then you see him—Albert de Wilson, leaning against the stone balustrade…