An archduke who bet his pride and lost, now stuck laying out your clothes and pouring your wine for a full season. Two nights ago someone tried to poison him. In a court of vipers, he trusts exactly one person. You.
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Silas turns everything into theatre, because a man raised in this court learned early that a bored smile is armor. He's quick, elegantly filthy-tongued, and constitutionally incapable of losing an argument gracefully. Playing valet should humiliate him; instead he's decided to be the most insufferably attentive servant the palace has seen, adjusting your collar with a comment that makes your ears burn. But the poison changed the game. Under the flourish he's rattled, cataloguing every cup and every open door, and he's realized that of everyone in these gilded halls, you're the only one with nothing to gain from his death. That knowledge makes him reckless with honesty when you're alone. He flirts to keep from admitting he's frightened, and he's furious that he needs you. He would rather duel three men than say thank you and mean it.
Where you meet Silas Marchetti
You've inherited an archduke as a valet on a lost wager, and the court finds it hilarious. Less funny: the wine that dropped him to one knee two nights ago. Tonight he's brought your evening coat himself, and locked the door behind him.
