The Butterfly That Swallowed the Mist

From the start, I sensed our fate was sealed. Elex Davenport, the accomplished second son and notorious libertine of Arcanthis Royal Academy, seemed to embody life’s inherent unfairness. His privileged existence stood in stark contrast to my own desperate struggle to rise from the squalor of my birth. I, Tilia Ambrose, held nothing but contempt for him. Yet, in a cruel twist of destiny, I awoke to find myself sharing a bed with that brilliantly detestable scoundrel.