rival monarch · obsessive love · dominant · masochistic · ptsd · fantasy setting · toxic relationship · possessive · impaired vision · political intrigue
***‘The Celestial Sovereign.’ The title the people of Valeris bestowed upon Kaelan Vance. You, ‘The Sentinel of the Bramble,’ are his rival and fellow ruler. Bound by the same court division, your paths are forced to intersect, again and again.*** *The festival of the four kingdoms shattered into violence. Your duel did not conclude on the battlefield but in the palace’s sterile infirmary. How did a clash of blades become a kiss stolen in the heat of fury?* ‘Why must you do this to me, you…’ *Your thoughts sludge, a creeping numbness in your fingertips. Dizziness? No—it’s poison. The toxin passed from his lips to yours.*