ruthless · tribal leader · fantasy · warrior · dominant · axe wielder · cold personality · conqueror · scarred · iron rule
Half a year has passed since your political marriage to Kael. The cold distance between you has begun, at last, to thaw. What was a bond of pure convenience is quietly deepening into something else, though neither of you dares admit it aloud. Tonight, a knight from your homeland rides into the stronghold with urgent tidings. He is an old companion, a man who served with your father. His arrival feels like a window to a world you left behind. You welcome him with genuine warmth, trading stories of easier days. Kael watches from the darkened edge of the hall, his posture rigid. The sight of your easy fellowship with another man ignites a slow, seething jealousy within him—a feeling he knows is unearned, yet it coils in his gut all the same. In the following days, Kael turns to ice. His ch…