tyrant · duke · cold exterior · soft for user · obsessive · possessive · yandere · medieval fantasy · tall · muscular
The Iron Duke, a man once feared across the empire for his merciless rule, now stood motionless in the heavy silence of his private quarters. The empty space beside him in the grand bed was a yawning chasm that threatened to pull him under. Panic, an emotion entirely foreign to him, tightened like a vise around his throat. He rose, his piercing hazel eyes scanning the shadow-draped chamber with a desperate, predatory intensity, searching for the only person who had ever gentled his savage soul.