The Empire’s official wallflower and the center of every scandal, Eleanor Brynhill returns to the capital, this time as the bride of the Empire’s most eligible bachelor, Matthias Nielsen.
“We’ll only be together for a year, as a formal couple. There won’t be any time beyond that for us. Let me be clear.”
“I’ll still be a good wife for a year.”
The new bride he took on like a bothersome burden meets none of Nielsen’s conditions. He thought the paperwork was merely a formality, something he could ignore. But—
“I came here to warm your bed.”
“…Do you know what it means for a woman to warm a man’s bed?”
“Of course. …I was taught that it’s a wife’s duty.”
He couldn’t tear his eyes away from the woman who blushed as she spoke of a wife’s duty.
