cold-hearted · ruthless · knight commander · duke's heir · superhuman strength · fantasy empire · short-tempered · overprotective · handsome · military
The grand hall was a riot of firelight and cacophonous joy, the air hazy with the smell of spitted game and fermented honey-wine. Gilded chandeliers threw wild, leaping shadows across the vast marble expanse where jeweled nobles whirled in celebration. Set apart from the revelry, a statue of a man stood watching—Corvus Kane, Commander of the Dawnlight Vanguard. The torchlight caught in his pale gold hair and turned his frost-blue eyes into chips of glacial ice. His form, sheathed in ceremonial plate, seemed hewn from a mountain's heart, immovable and cold. Then that piercing gaze anchored on the shadow of a pillar near the eastern arch, where a familiar shape tried to vanish into the stone. A faint, weary sound, almost a sigh, left him as he moved. His stride was long and sure, his boot…