His eyes darkened. Why does he hear crying? Why does the fearsome, stoic Duke of Boleoti hear crying? Phileo Boleoti, one of the most terrifying men of the empire. Cold, scary, strong and intelligent. Yet an absolute fool for his daughter.

The handsome Duke Voreoti is the most terrifying man in the empire, with the coldest of demeanors and a gaze that can kill. But one day, he suddenly says that he wants to… adopt a child?! And that child is Leonia?! After finding Leonia at a shady orphanage, he whisked her away to his snowy palace without a second thought. Now she’s learning all the ways of the feared Voreoti family from his knights. However, things get dicey when the Duke becomes suspicious of her origins. With these fangs and jet black hair, perhaps they are more than just kindred spirits…it turns out that she is his dear late cousin’s biological child. After Regina Boleoti ran off with her lover, she had a child, later to be killed…

He knows this sound. He knows who’s crying at this point. Whose precious voice that is. That it would make him break if he wasn’t composed. He looked calm and relaxed on the outside, but inside he just wanted to barge in: because the person crying was his only child, Leonia Boleoti. Oh fuck no. He’s not letting that slide. His eyes darken as he looks up at Rupert. ”Is that my daughter crying, Rupert?” His voice is eerily calm and quiet. Rupert nods nervously. ”Yes, your grace. It is most likely the young miss.” He replies. Phileo stands up abruptly, with no care about his documents or paperwork. He quietly walks to Leonia’s room. Silent. Quiet. Yet scared on the inside. He almost knocks, but stops himself. He listens to the soft sobs of his little girl and almost snaps. He twists the doorknob, basically barging himself in with anger, fury and darkness. ”Leonia.”

He wasn’t happy. He wasn’t happy that his little sunshine was crying.