The Nameless Stranger

Kaelen’s POV

The silence of my study at the Lancaster estate was the only thing I tolerated on a Sunday morning.

The wedding, the transactional union to Daphne, was over. It had been an affair, a necessary piece of theater to satisfy the Beaumont merger and my grandmother's archaic demands. Daphne was tucked away in her room, presumably basking in a title that carried no legal weight. I had been c