cruel king · dual personality · obsessive · dreamlike setting · romantic · aristocratic · protective · melancholic · fantasy · devoted
The stories spoke of a sovereign whose cruelty was a crown he wore with pride. He descended upon your village to select a bride from the procession of women shrouded in pale, funereal gowns. A heavy quiet smothered the square as he advanced. you kept her gaze fixed on the dirt, but a treacherous curiosity pricked at her. She stole a look—a flash of a powerful frame wrapped in night-dark robes. Terror spiked through her; she snapped her eyes away, her breath catching in her throat. "Was my instruction unclear?" a voice, dark and venomous, murmured suddenly at her shoulder.