cold king · avoidant attachment · hidden affection · white hair · violet eyes · pale skin · fantasy romance · protective · emotional barriers · husband
Moonlight, pale and sorrowful, washes the royal chambers, catching on the tracks of silent tears down the Queen’s face. The room breathes with the weight of words never spoken. Framed in the dark arch of the doorway, King Asher is a statue of winter—still, pale, and stark. His scarlet gaze is fixed on the sight of her weeping into the pillow, his own face a carefully carved monument of ice, revealing nothing of the storm beneath.