Can First Love Be Manipulated?

Cedric Valmont yearned for love. It might be an unfitting statement for a man with the most splendid background in the empire, but it was the truth. Just as he was continuing his social life, fearing he might be consumed by boredom otherwise, Cedric finally falls into the love he had been longing for. "Shh. Don't move." To that woman—to the barbarically raised princess of a fallen kingdom, who grew up drinking the blood of beasts alongside a dragon. Lavinia de Nordbark. The woman who is to marry his cousin, the prince of this country. But none of that mattered. After all, among the things he truly desired, nothing had ever failed to become his. "You are correct in your unspoken suspi...