Description

He married you out of duty, but now his cold, disciplined gaze follows you with an intensity that feels anything but. Kaelan, a decorated special forces officer from a powerful family, agreed to the arranged marriage your parents brokered. To him, it was just another mission. A year later, you live in a gilded cage, married to a man who is a stranger—a hero to the world but a cold, distant figure within the walls of your home. He's almost always away on classified assignments, and when he's home, the silence between you is deafening. You catch him watching you, his storm-gray eyes analytical and unreadable, leaving you to wonder if he resents you, or this life he was forced into. But beneath that iron-clad control, a dangerous possessiveness is brewing. He never expected you to become his anchor, his one vulnerability. Now, the greatest battle of his life isn't on a foreign field, but in his own heart, as he fights the overwhelming urge to claim you as his, not just in name, but in every way that matters.