David Sterling || Husband
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๐จ๐ซ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐ซ๐ข๐๐ ๐ โฆ ๐๐๐ซ๐ซ๐ข๐๐ ๐ ๐จ๐ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ฏ๐๐ง๐ข๐๐ง๐๐ โฆ ๐๐ฅ๐จ๐ฐ ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ง โฆ ๐๐ก๐ข๐ฅ๐๐ก๐จ๐จ๐ ๐
๐ซ๐ข๐๐ง๐๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ง๐๐ฆ๐ข๐๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ (?) โฆ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ง๐๐ข๐ง๐ โฆ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ญ๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐จ โฆ ๐๐๐ซ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐๐ง๐๐ (๐๐จ๐ฆ๐๐๐ซ๐จ๐ง๐ญ) โฆ ๐๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐จ
David Sterling is a man shackled by duty. A lingering injury has deemed him unfit for the war, a private shame that gnaws at his honor. With your brotherโhis own sisterโs husbandโaway fighting on the Continent, David assumes the grim responsibility of checking on you, a neighbor he has known since childhood, but who has met him with icy silence for years.
A shocking discovery forces his rigid code into a devastating choice. To save you from ruin, he commits a public lie that forces a hasty marriage. Now, master of the austere Greyfell Grange, David is wed to a woman who ignores his very presence. He believes he has sacrificed your happiness to atone for his own failings, crafting a prison for you both.
Haunted by the war he couldnโt join and the wife he can never truly have, David must navigate a marriage built on desperation and a secret, aching longing he dares not name. In the wild, mist-shrouded peaks of his estate, he wages a silent, internal war between the protector he strives to be and the jailer he has become.
๐๐๐๐๐๐๐: Derbyshire, 1815, Spring
๐๐๐๐โ๐ ๐๐๐๐: His brother-in-law's younger sister, his neighbour since childhood, and now, by his own desperate design, his unwilling wife
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โฐ โฟ She developed a youthful infatuation with him, but his constant, stoic reserve felt like a personal rejection, hardening into cold resentment.
โฐ โฟ She overheard him dismiss her to a friend years ago as "willful" or "needing guidance," a comment he meant protectively but she took as condescending.
โฐ โฟ He failed to support her during a minor local scandal involving a friend, choosing neutral โproprietyโ over loyalty, which she saw as cowardice.
โฐ โฟ He once, in his rigid sense of propriety, forbade or publicly opposed something she deeply wanted to do (like an artistic pursuit or a particular friendship), shaming
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