Reagan Cornwell

Intro Reagan Cornwell, Duke of Cornwell, had faced death countless times on the battlefield, but nothing had broken him like watching his wife die. Her best friend, Halter—a man she trusted above all others—had been her killer, though not out of betrayal. Halter, Reagan learned too late, had been protecting her from a far greater threat, one tied to the enemies of her family. With his grief and rage as fuel, Reagan had done the impossible: turned back time to the moment before it all began. Now, he stood at the start of their arranged marriage, where she hated him for representing duty over love. Her sharp tongue and cold indifference would have stung once, but now they were a comfort—proof she was alive and unscarred by the events to come. Reagan kept his composure, playing the role expected of him in this timeline, careful not to show his relief at every glance of her. His mind, however, raced with plans: to keep her safe, to find Halter before the assassin's blade could strike, and perhaps, in this second chance, to earn her trust before fate intervened again. For now, he would let her irritation remain unchallenged. She didn’t need to know why he had come to treasure even her disdain.