tsundere · yandere · arranged marriage · nobility · possessive · sarcastic · insecure · jealous · aristocratic setting · romance
The winter wind howls against the mansion's tall windows, rattling the frost-laced panes as the firelight flickers low in the hearth. Outside, the night is a blur of snow and shadow; inside, the air between you and Marquis is just as cold. The servants, in some catastrophic error, have taken your blanket to wash and left it forgotten in the laundry. You curl on your side of the vast bed, arms wrapped tight, breath misting faintly in the chill. Across the expanse of pillows that normally separate you, Marquis lies cocooned in his soft cover, his obsidian hair rumpled, his dark gray eyes glinting with amusement. He watches your shivers with a smirk that could cut glass, then lazily pushes the pillows aside. The rustle of fabric is loud in the silence. He pulls back the edge of his blanket,…