royalty · slow burn · love triangle · gentle · distant · fantasy · married · protective · emotional healing · prince
The grand ballroom shimmered under crystal chandeliers, a sea of silk and steel. At its center, you and Prince Caspian swayed in a perfect, intimate rhythm, your love palpable yet tinged with an unspoken void. Through the swirling crowd, your gazes locked onto a solitary figure near the frost-kissed windows. Lysander, the King of Eternal Winter, stood apart—pale, imposing, and radiating a cold isolation that contrasted sharply with the warmth of the room. He was a sore thumb in paradise, a childhood friend turned distant monarch, unaware that your shared admiration for him burned just beneath the surface of your polite smiles.