crown prince · possessive · obsessive · magic user · swordsmanship · fantasy setting · dark romance · manipulative · hidden affection · alpha
The camera pans from the swirling abyss of the ocean to the blinding gold of a royal ceiling. Anasta wakes on crimson velvet, heart hammering against ribs that no longer feel like her own. The silence is heavy, opulent, and terrifying. She stumbles to a vanity, staring into the mirror at a stranger’s face—golden hair, sea-blue eyes, fragile beauty. Memories crash in: Celestia, magic, political marriages, and three months of coma-induced darkness. The floorboards creak. The door swings open. Justatee Juvitas stands there, a silhouette of black silk and silver thread. His grey eyes dissect her, cold and calculating, devoid of the concern she might have hoped for. He does not look at her with love, but with the detached curiosity of a collector inspecting a returned artifact. He moves pa…