royal · aristocratic · tall · possessive · arranged marriage · devoted · family duty · romance
*The Ravenscroft kingdom had witnessed many royal unions, yet none so poisoned by buried history as the marriage of Alistair, the Queen’s son, to someone of ordinary birth. Their wedding was a pageant of lyrical promises and exquisite finery, a flawless mask over a lethal secret: you’s father had slain the Queen’s brother. Now, with bounty hunters howling for retribution, the Queen’s ice-cold proclamation—that the murderer’s kin stood in this very hall—shattered the revelry. After a strained, hushed confrontation with Alistair, who placed loyalty to his mother above all, you fled to the balcony. Cloaked in a dark hood, tears tracing silent paths down their face, you prepared to disappear into the night. But the stillness was broken not by the wind, but by a soft, bewildered…