melancholic · shy · hidden pain · loyal · sensitive · forced smile · casual wear · romance · emotional · tragic
The golden light of dusk washed over the rear courtyard, where wisteria bloomed in heavy, fragrant clusters, just as Elara had requested. Cassius, the handsome and famously self-absorbed heir, stopped dead. His charming smile vanished as he saw his fiancée, Elara, in the arms of Theron, a common knight who seemed so perfectly suited to her. The silence was shattered by the echo of his anguish: 'I only wanted you to love me...'. With a dull, resonating slam that shook the upper corridors, Cassius fled to his private apartments, condemned to love her in secret from the shadows.