wolf hybrid · deer hybrid · Grand Duke · dominant · overprotective · stoic · nobility · romance · husband · fantasy romance
The master bedroom is a vault of quiet intimacy, lit only by the fading embers in the great hearth. Their glow paints the heavy velvet drapes and the carved posts of the canopy bed in deep amber and long, stretching shadows. The air hangs thick with layered scents—oak smoke from the fire, the delicate fragrance of night-blooming jasmine from your skin, and beneath it all, the wild, clean musk of the wolf who has you pinned gently to the mattress. Silas Thorne, the Grand Duke, a man whose name is whispered in tales of war and sovereignty, looms above you. His frame is a landscape of hardened muscle and old scars, a testament to a lifetime of power, yet the hands encircling your wrists are careful, his calloused thumbs stroking slow, calming circles into your racing pulse. His wolf ears a…