A Touch of Shadow: The Duke's Obsession

A Touch of Shadow: The Duke's Obsession

by yoojee

Genre

Adult

Author

yoojee

Chapters

127

Status

Completed

13K

888

Caelith Emberlyn has spent her life navigating the treacherous waters of noble society, where every smile hides a dagger and every alliance comes with a price. On the night meant to seal her fate in silk and candlelight, she crosses paths with a duke whose reputation precedes him like a stormcloud -- dark, commanding, and utterly dangerous. The Duke is not the cold aristocrat the whispers describe. Beneath his polished exterior lies an obsession that defies every rule of propriety. When Caelith becomes the object of his fixation, she is drawn into a forbidden affair that threatens to unravel the carefully constructed facades of two powerful noble houses. Every stolen glance, every whispered word in shadowed corridors, pulls her deeper into a web of desire and peril. As court intrigue tightens around them and enemies close in from all sides, Caelith must decide whether the duke's consuming passion is a prison or the only true freedom she has ever known. In a world where love is a weapon and trust is a luxury no one can afford, surrendering to the shadows may be the most dangerous choice of all.

Chapters

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Chapter 1: The Wedding Night

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Chapter 2: You Owe Me

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Chapter 3: Invitation

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Chapter 4: What Do I Want?

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Chapter 5: Do As You Wish

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Chapter 6: Mistake

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Chapter 7: Peril

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Chapter 8: The Rawest Wound

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Chapter 9: Play

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Chapter 10: Because It Is You

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Chapter 11: A Game Of Chess

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Chapter 12: It’s His Choice

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Chapter 13: Trembling

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Chapter 14: Hound

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Chapter 15: Cunning

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Chapter 16: Twilight

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Chapter 17: The Tea

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Chapter 18: Help Me

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Chapter 19: Waiting For The News

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Chapter 20: Mercy

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Chapter 21: Lean On Me

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Chapter 22: Call Me By Name

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Chapter 23: Shift

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Chapter 24: No Proof

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Chapter 25: Remember

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Chapter 26: Trust

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Chapter 27: Calculations

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Chapter 28: A Silent Blade

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Chapter 29: Intimacy

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Chapter 30: Precious

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Chapter 31: Monstrous Nature

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Chapter 32: Difficult

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Chapter 33: Two Birds

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Chapter 34: Magnanimity

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Chapter 35: Disobedient

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Chapter 36: Only Ask Me

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Chapter 37: Between You and Me

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Chapter 38: Some Truths

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Chapter 39: Why Do You Weep?

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Chapter 40: Only Her

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Chapter 41: Hoping Against Hope

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Chapter 42: Something Curious

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Chapter 43: Changed

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Chapter 44: Wish to Resist

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Chapter 45: Following

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Chapter 46: Jade

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Chapter 47: Hidden Past

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Chapter 48: Dreams

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Chapter 49: A Line to Cross

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Chapter 50: You Will Find Me

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