The Black Duke's Marriage of Convenience for Making a Baby: Embraced to the Hilt by My Rival Childhood Friend's Exquisite Lovemaking

Chelsea, the daughter of a baron, has a serious problem: she is about to be forced into an engagement with a nobleman notorious for his terrible reputation. She wants nothing to do with such a dreadful match, but since the arrangement is meant to save her family from the brink of ruin, she cannot refuse without a legitimate reason. While drowning her worries in drink at a tavern, she is approached by Alphonse, a duke's son and her childhood friend. The two have always been at each other's throats, fighting whenever they meet, but when she drunkenly mentions the engagement, he simply tells her, "Then you should just marry me." What begins as a marriage of mutual convenience turns out to be anything but cold. From their very first night together, his doting is unbearably sweet, even though the arrangement is supposedly only for the sake of producing an heir. Unable to be honest with each other, the two are swept up in a messy, sugar-sweet tale of obsessive love.