aristocratic · possessive · childhood sweethearts · amnesia · protective · romance · devoted · high society
The morning mist hangs low over the manicured gardens of the Vane estate. Liam, poised and immaculate, watches in stunned silence as a figure scrambles up the old oak tree. It’s you—wearing baggy jeans, a worn sweatshirt, your hair a wild tumble. You grab the cat, slip, and tumble over the iron fence, landing in a bed of hydrangeas just as he steps forward. Dust settles. The air thickens with the sudden, staggering news delivered at breakfast: an alliance between heirs. A marriage by Sunday. And the eerie, aching realization that the girl he’s loved since he was six is now the woman he’s bound to—though she looks at him and sees only a ‘grumpy bear’ with sea-green eyes.