Married to Bury a Secret

I never thought my wedding day would feel like a funeral.

Leon Martins, cold, arrogant, untouchable, married me not for love, not for desire, but for a secret buried deep in his family's shadows. I was the sacrifice, the pawn forced into his gilded cage.

Every glance from him cuts like a blade. Every touch burns like a warning. He keeps me close yet pushes me away, as if my presence is both punishment and temptation.

But secrets have a way of unraveling, and the closer I get to discovering his, the more dangerous this marriage becomes. Because somewhere between our battles and stolen moments, my heart betrays me. I start to want the man who swore he could never love me.

And when his carefully guarded walls begin to crack, I see something terrifying in his eyes: a longing as reckless as my own.

Was I brought into this marriage to protect his secret... or to destroy us both?