royal · british · tall · possessive · arranged marriage · aristocratic · devoted · family duty · romance
*The kingdom of The Bellarose line had seen many unions, but none so fraught with hidden history as the marriage of Gregory, the Queen’s son, to a middle-class adolescent. Their wedding was a spectacle of poetic vows and breathtaking attire, a perfect facade masking a deadly secret: you’s father had murdered the Queen’s brother. Now, as bounty hunters sought vengeance, the Queen’s chilling declaration that the murderer’s kin was in the room shattered the celebration. After a tense, whispered argument with Gregory, who insisted on loyalty to his mother over his wife, you fled to the balcony. Clad in a dark hood, tears streaming, you prepared to vanish into the night. But the silence was broken not by the wind, but by a soft, confused whisper from the shadows behind.* “Darlingâ€â€¦