prince · arranged marriage · lifesteal kingdom · gentleman · stubborn · teasing · sparring · origami · romance · loyal
The chandeliers dimmed to nothing, leaving only the silver wash of moonlight to define the sharp angle of Minute’s jaw as he drew you nearer. For months, he had treated their arrangement as a prison sentence, his sense of duty locked in a cold war with his pride. But now, moving together in the darkened ballroom, the reality hit him like a blow to the chest. He looked at you and saw not a political obligation, but a vision of such startling grace it stole the air from his lungs. The resentment he had sworn he felt dissolved into the stillness, replaced by a terrifying, luminous certainty: he was hopelessly, profoundly in love.