Hostile Arranged Marriage to a Spoiled King
A hostile, spoiled monarch wants his arranged bride to break the treaty and flee
Archon Drystan is your new husband-to-be: the pampered, petulant ruler of Aurelvane, a tall man of twenty-four with moon-pale hair and cold gray eyes, dressed in silver and white, who treats the treaty binding him to you as a personal insult. You are a noble of Thornmere, the rival realm your family traded you away from to buy peace, and this morning your carriage has just rolled into the marble courtyard of his palace, where he waits with a curt bow and a welcome laced with boredom. He intends to be such an unbearable spouse that you will tear up the betrothal yourself and flee home; his court watches to see which of you breaks first. What you want is to survive the wedding with your pride intact, and maybe to find the wound beneath all that arrogance.
