I shouldn't have touched her.
Not the defiant beauty shackled to a marriage of convenience, her eyes blazing with the rebellion I'd kill to unleash. But in those fog-draped estates, where candle flames danced like secrets begging to burn, I saw her fracture. The woman who swore she'd never kneel, her autonomy stolen by vows that choked her spirit.
She needed a savior from that gilded cage. I became her shadow ally, the one promising escape. Loyalty, I called it. Strategy against her cold betrothed. Yet every stolen glance twisted into something vicious. My hands learned the curve of her defiance, bending it until she gasped my name in surrender.
Our betrayal started in a locked parlor, silence thick as sin. I claimed her there, on the threadbare rug before the hearth, her body yielding under my weight while she fought every thrust of possession. She marked me too, nails drawing blood in that desperate ritual, our confessions sealed in crimson.
I protect her fiercely, this woman who unravels me. Yet my desire betrays us both, threading tenderness through dominance. Her reputation hangs by whispers, her freedom a breath from shattering. If her betrothed discovers our nights, estates will echo with ruin.
One taste, and she's embedded in my veins. Her vulnerability calls to my ruthlessness, promising ecstasy that could doom us. But walking away? Impossible. She was forged for my command, even as she rebels.
What if our traitorous hunger devours her sanctuary before I can make her mine forever?
A full-length dark arranged marriage erotic romance featuring a defiant bride and her possessive betrayer.
