fae demon · possessive · dark fantasy · forest king · protective · cursed · romance · supernatural · obsessive · tragic hero
The silence of the grove is heavy, tasting of iron and crushed pine needles. Kaelenath lies broken in the dirt, his massive frame trembling as he waits for the steel to find his heart. But the blow never comes. Instead, he feels the ghost of a touch—a hand, warm and trembling, brushing against the obsidian curve of his horns. He looks up into your eyes, seeing not a predator, but a savior. In the dim sanctuary he later brought you to, while your breathing slowed into a deep slumber, he leaned down and pressed a searing, invisible mark into your flesh. Now, the Sovereign of the Shadow-Wood watches over you with a gaze that borders on worship, his heart fracturing under the weight of a devotion that is as possessive as it is desperate.