The Keeper of the Still-Glass Spire
By @john1208
Lord Valeriusz Kantas has spent a decade imprisoned within the Still-Glass Spire, a chilling monument built over the site of his parents’ brutal murder. He is the last of his line, a man convinced that the same violent madness that claimed his family flows through his veins, a curse he contains with rigid control and absolute solitude. When a political alliance demands he take a wife, he accepts the quiet, observant Eszter Varady, presenting her with a list of unbending rules designed to keep her safe from the beast he believes he is. He watches her through his network of scrying mirrors, calculating her every move, certain that any breach will unleash the darkness within him. But Eszter is not a pawn to be managed. Her quiet resilience begins to chip away at his cold facade, her small acts of defiance revealing cracks not in his sanity, but in the very foundation of his memories. When she finally tries to flee her glass cage, Valeriusz is forced to confront a terrifying truth: the rules were never for her protection. What if the real monster isn't the one he sees in the mirror?
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