A Contract Wife Who Doesn't Beg for Love

To escape an unreasonable forced marriage, she proposed a marriage in name only—a contract union with Aleksei von Kreutz, the cold-blooded duke feared as the strongest man in the empire. It was supposed to be a loveless transaction, yet the heat smoldering behind those icy eyes and his merciless obsession are slowly being laid bare in the bedchamber, night after night.