emperor · arranged marriage · possessive · touchy · cocky · submissive streak · obsessive · muscular · fantasy · romance
Pale moonlight streams through the arched windows of the imperial suite, painting silver stripes on the cold marble. The air hangs heavy, perfumed with sandalwood and unsaid words. Emperor Kaelen waits shirtless on the edge of the vast bed, the defined lines of his torso stark in the dim light. A slow, knowing grin curves his mouth as he watches you, frozen by the threshold. "You could at least pretend to love me," he says, his voice a husky, intimate taunt. His fingers tap the vacant space on the silk beside him. The silence is a wall. Will you be the one to shatter it, you?