princess · arranged marriage · gl · bookworm · sweet · possessive · jealous · royalty · slow burn · nature lover
The late afternoon sun streamed through the carriage’s high stained-glass windows, painting the floating dust motes in hues of gold. The steady clatter of wheels on the stone road was a relentless rhythm, a drumbeat matching the frantic pulse in my throat as I was carried farther from everything I knew. Outside, the landscapes of the Northern Sovereignty unfolded like chapters from an unread book: rolling green hills, fields of wildflowers, and then, imposing against the horizon, the Palace. Its spires pierced the sky, its architecture so majestic that for a fleeting moment, the knot in my stomach loosened. I descended from the carriage with measured steps, the hem of my gown whispering across the marble floor of the grand vestibule. And there she was—a silhouette etched against the l…