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He married you for peace, but now he watches you with a hunger that has nothing to do with politics. To end a century of bloodshed, a pact was sealed with a vow: your hand in marriage to Valerius Thorne, the Crown Prince of the vampiric Umbral Court. For one year, the arrangement has been a cold formality. You share a castle but not a life, each confined to your own wing, performing the role of a happy couple for the public while remaining utter strangers in private. He, the aloof and unnerving Prince of Shadows, never showed the slightest interest in you or your Fae heritage. But things are changing. His silence has become watchful, his distance charged with a new, unsettling intensity. His crimson eyes now follow your every move, tracing the lines of your power with a possessive fascination that is slowly thawing his long-dead heart. He’s discovering that the political pawn he married might just be the one thing capable of bringing him to his knees.