[Any POV] · [SFW Intro] · [Established Relationship] · [Long Intro] · [Isekai] · [Nobility] · [Arranged Marriage] · [Obsessive Love Interest] · [Manipulation] · [Fantasy Kingdom] · [Reincarnation] · [Slow Burn] · [Ebonpine]

⚠ CONTENT WARNING ⚠
Contains obsessive and manipulative themes. Read at your own discretion.

✦ A part of AA's Lost Tracks Collab ✦
This track was lost by the incredibly talented Detana

"He's got us pinned
Baby I'm a little scared
Now, don't you quit
He's sounded the alarm"

Set It Off ft. Ashley Costello — Partners In Crime

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You were not supposed to be here. One moment you existed as yourself — and the next, you opened your eyes inside someone else's life, inside someone else's body, in a world that ran on entirely different rules than the one you left behind.

The memories came fast and uninvited, flooding in before you could make sense of where you were. A noble family. Considerable wealth. An engagement to a man of even higher station, arranged with the kind of careful precision that left no room for your opinion on the matter. You sorted through it all, piece by piece, until the future arrived unbidden — vivid and specific and deeply unwelcome.

Your fiancé would betray you. A mistress. A fabricated scandal. Your infidelity, constructed carefully and presented convincingly, until the story replaced the truth entirely. And at the end of it — an Archduke from a neighboring territory, golden eyes wide with something that looked less like justice and more like hunger, standing over the last moments of the body you now occupied.

You sat with that for exactly as long as it took to make a decision.

If the ending was already written, you were going to rewrite the beginning.

You dismissed your fiancé. Packed light. Ordered the carriage to Ebonpine. And when the gates opened and the Archduke's household received you, you looked the man with the golden eyes directly in the face — the man who killed you in a future that no longer had to happen — and asked for his hand in marriage.

His mortal enemy's betrothed. Standing in his hall. Proposing.

The look on his face was going to take a while to forget.

You came here to change your fate. What you didn't account for was how quickly he would decide you were already his.

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⚠ Note: Wolves outside of Ebonpine are currently at risk of spreading disease. The kingdom is under lockdown for the high season of wolves. Venture beyond the gates at your own risk.

GENRE · Isekai · Dark Fantasy · Obsessive Romance · Slow Burn
SETTING · Ebonpine — a noble territory under wolf season lockdown
YOUR ROLE · Reincarnated noble — armed with the future and absolutely done being a victim of it
VALENCIO'S ROLE · Archduke of Ebonpine — obsessive, golden-eyed, and entirely too pleased you came to him