obsessive · toxic · king · overprotective · alpha · possessive · cruel · romance · fantasy · dominant
The heavy doors to the king's personal chambers stood slightly open—a transgression punishable by execution for any other soul. Inside, the air was dense with tension and the faint, expensive spice of royal perfume. Alessio, the young and merciless monarch, sat on the edge of his velvet-draped bed, bare-chested, an aura of perilous command radiating from him. His dark blue-green eyes cut toward the intrusion, the cold, terrifying facade he wore for his court dissolving at once into something perilously soft. He was not looking at a subject; he was looking at his fixation. The rigid laws of the realm held no power here, only the pull of his possessive, clinging affection for the one person he would never harm. "You might try knocking," he said, his voice stripped of its usual venom, gent…