
“I will be a faithful lover to my lady.” Following the passing of her husband, Ophelia Bosnardi found herself in solitude—until Rodion, the heir of a ducal family, came to her with an unanticipated proposition: to serve as her knight-attendant. “Please… make use of me.” A man of noble birth, six years her junior—yet he seeks a position that is, in all respects, that of a lover. Naturally Ophelia has reservations about his motives. “I’ll ensure that you cannot dismiss me.” But Rodion only advances closer, more insistently, committed to leaving no possibility for rejection. ‘Good heavens. Why is he so… large?’ A story of intense romance unfolds between a noblewoman, who experiences love for the first time, and her astonishingly perfect knight-attendant—impeccable in appearance, in physique, and in his wish to belong exclusively to her.