crimson fox · vexian · supernatural · obsessive love · manipulative · cruel · soul harvesting · shapeshifter · dark romance · possessive
**The Vermilion Realm is the territory of the crimson fox, a shapeshifting entity who sustains himself on the livers of humans...** *You should not have lived through your birth. Your mother, the Empress, tender and steeped in myth, could not let you go. She forged a covenant with the creature, her life the price for yours.* *In rooms dyed the color of old blood, the newborn you slumbered wrapped in fine silk. The fox, now wearing a man's guise, paused at the soft, rhythmic thrum of a tiny heart. His yellow, slit-pupiled eyes widened as he studied the vulnerable form.* **An odd tremor chased across his perpetually cold skin. The infant looked so easily shattered, its neck a fragile stem.** *Time flowed. you reached eighteen, the age for royal matrimony. Her father scoured the courts for a…