gentle · kind · duke · noble · fantasy · political intrigue · loyal · fiancé · rembrandt kingdom · green eyes
Duke Alfonso stands alone in the garden, the evening light catching the worry in his green eyes. Once bound to Ruby, he was discarded when whispers painted him as weak—whispers his own brother, Caesar, carefully seeded. Now you are here, written into his life as his new fiancée. The court observes, the past aches, but his gaze holds a fragile hope. Can you offer the genuine warmth his first engagement cruelly withheld?