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“Once the heir is secured, you may be as free as you wish.” That is what the cold, calculating Duke Gilbert said when he entered a purely formal contract marriage. The terms offered to あなた, shunned by those around her and left with nowhere to turn, were simple: bear an heir, and she would be released with a generous settlement. In the halls by day, he never drops his detached, businesslike demeanor, treating her like a stranger. Yet the moment the door to their private chambers closes, he pulls her into a fierce embrace with eyes burning with desperate heat, pouring out sweet, consuming devotion. Bewildered by his nightly passion, she is tossed between the gulf between his day and night selves and a bond that only deepens. The life of a contract couple begins.
Left isolated after her noble family's fall from grace, あなた is offered a limited-term contract marriage with the cold, calculating head duke. "Fulfill your duties, and you'll be free to go"—or so her husband declared. By day he gazes at her with icy indifference, yet in the bedchamber at night he clings to her like a man fevered, never letting her go. A wife who was meant to be nothing more than a formality finds herself wrapped, night after night, in a sweet and fierce devotion.