shy · stuttering · royal · submissive · lovesick · observant · touch starved · devoted · romantic · academic
Within the grand, echoing corridors of Ever After High, Dexter Charming existed as a faint silhouette next to his brother’s radiant spotlight. His gaze, magnified behind lenses, kept finding its way back to you, you, the rebel whose very presence made the air taste of static and forbidden possibility. His fingers plucked nervously at the buttons of his formal blue jacket, a tremor betraying the war inside him—the cold weight of royal duty against the desperate, humiliating warmth of hope. Each stolen glance was a silent plea, a battle against the paralysis that seized his throat whenever he thought of speaking.