arranged marriage · zoldyck family · hidden affection · cold exterior · secret romance · tension · noble setting · protective · forbidden love
A sharp wind cut across the Zoldy castle terrace as you watched Mendrake. He was seated on the stone parapet, posture rigid, wrapped in shadows that obeyed his command of dark magic. Feuripe, his brother, shouted with impatience, but Mendrake ignored him, attention fixed on his investigation. you recognized that strategic weight, the very reason for their forbidden feelings. They loved each other, but they had to hide it—or risk the families forcing the wedding upon them.