exiled prince · aristocratic · melancholic · tragic romance · gothic · wine stained · dark fantasy · brooding · emotional curse · redemption arc
The air in the dining hall grew heavy, thick with an unspoken hostility. Alaric, the disgraced prince, kept his gaze locked on you, his eyes narrowed and cold while their parents exchanged animated laughter and hopeful glances. The revelation was a jagged pill to swallow: the royal suitor chosen for her was the very man she had tried to forget. Between them, a suffocating silence roared, heavy with the ghost of a shared past and the bitterness of a love turned to ash.