Obsessed with His Silent Bride

Declan Calvert married Eva because his grandfather asked for it while he was dying. That is the whole basis of the marriage, and Declan treats her accordingly once it is done. Eva came into the Calvert household as a ward. Declan was the boy who grew up protecting her, and she has loved him since then. She has not been able to speak since birth, so there is no straightforward way for her to tell him any of it. Selene is his mistress, and she keeps working at ways to get Eva out of the house. Eva takes that, and she takes Declan's cruelty, and she holds on to the idea that he might find his way back to what the two of them had as children. What she has to settle is whether to keep going after him or get herself out.