Synopsis
One day, a marriage contract suddenly descends like a bolt of lightning into the life of a woman who has endured nothing but abuse and neglect.
Her intended groom is the infamous mad duke who is said to return every day drenched in the blood of monsters.
Unable to make sense of the situation, she flees without looking back. But just as she stands on the brink of death, the person who appears before her is none other than that very duke.
And he is the man whose life she had saved a year ago.
“Why do you think there isn’t a reason it has to be you?”
Tristan’s sharp gaze fixed itself entirely on her.
His dry crimson eyes shimmered strangely as they locked onto hers, and in an instant, he closed the distance between them.
Startled as the bed suddenly tilted to one side, she had no chance to retreat before he rolled up the sleeve of his left arm.
On the inside of his firm, well-defined forearm was a scar, as though something had once scratched him.
“At the lake. Don’t you remember?”
Eyes the color of dried beast’s blood held her gaze relentlessly, refusing to let go.
“You reached out your hand to me, Eliana.”
Slowly tracing the scar with his long fingers, he continued,
“From that day until now… I’ve needed no one but you.”
A woman trapped in a life of misery.
A man who needs that woman to break free from an immortal curse.
I need you, and you need me.
Can we save each other?
