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Everyone thought that Karl, once the royal family’s foremost death knight, had become a prisoner of the madman of the Northern Frontier, his dignity crushed beneath his feet.
No one knew that behind closed doors, he would tear off his collar, sit in the Grand Duke’s chair, and drink his private stash of liquor.
“Five thousand five hundred for last night’s acting, plus compensation for the bruise on my chin. Pay up.”
Rain von Valentin, the empire’s infamous mad Grand Duke, was cold and brutal in public. In private, insomnia and out-of-control magic drove him to the brink of madness.
And this low-ranking servant, smelling of smoke and gunpowder, was the only “human pillow” he could sleep beside.
One did the job for money. The other paid to stay alive.
With each holding a fatal secret over the other, they signed a “pretend taming contract.”
In public, he was a plaything beneath the Grand Duke’s heel.
In private, he was the Grand Duke’s only partner, and the only person in the world who could make him close his eyes and sleep peacefully.
