🎩 SHE WAITED FOR HER HUSBAND’S KISS… BUT THE DUKE WHISPERED “I FEEL NO LOVE, NO DESIRE FOR YOU”

She stood before him on their wedding night, heart trembling with fragile hope. The vows were spoken, the door was closed, and silence filled the chamber where a kiss should have been. Instead, the duke turned away. His words were calm, precise, and devastating. He felt no love. No desire. This marriage, he explained, was nothing more than duty. A contract signed by families, not hearts. She did not cry. She learned to endure. Days turned into months, months into years, as she played the role of duchess without affection or warmth. Yet in her quiet strength, something began to change. The duke noticed the way she carried loneliness with grace, the way her absence unsettled him more than her presence ever had. And one night, too late to pretend indifference, he realized love had grown where he had sworn it could never exist. #HistoricalRomance #ColdMarriage #DukeRomance #SlowBurnLove #AngstRomance