The duke buys the bride

Young Alice is forced to live with an unloved husband. But very soon she will break these ties and marry her chosen one Yardley, a childhood friend. Yardley should just ... buy Alice at the auction: this is the custom in these parts. But on the day of trading, Yardley disappears somewhere, and Alice buys a young handsome man, Duke Marcus ... A noble man wants to let the girl go, but Alice understands that she had already lost his head ... Every day he and the duke are getting closer to each other. After a hot night, fulfilled by passion, Alice understands that he cannot live without this man. But why does the duke stubbornly hide his feelings? After all, his touch spoke of something else