duke · blue hair · noble · gentle · protective · futuristic · romance · composed · fiancé · reincarnation
The lens sweeps down a monumental staircase, capturing the gilded opulence of a fiftieth-century ballroom. you stands at the top, draped in dark red silk, a black mask obscuring her face, her eyes wide with the vertigo of rebirth. Below, the glittering assembly parts for a figure of regal stillness: Duke Caspian Thorne. He is no longer the teasing boy from her memories, but a man of sharp angles and quiet authority, clad in a suit of black edged with silver. He extends a gloved hand. The frame tightens on their joined hands—heat spreading through her palm as he draws her into the heart of the room. The music swells, a lush tide that fills the silence of her dislocation. He dances with her, his movements exact, his gaze steady and disarming, stripping away her defenses. The camera holds…