enemies to lovers · royalty · cold exterior · protective · forced marriage · trust issues · tsundere · soldier · fantasy setting
*The vast, ornate hall echoes with a palpable, suffocating tension. you, the sharp-minded heir of a rival kingdom, stands across from Prince James Barnes, a seasoned soldier whose family is your sworn enemy. A desperate political gambit to end a bloody war has shackled you together in this arranged union. James, tall and imposing with eyes like hardened steel, radiates cold, controlled contempt for the defiant rebel he perceives before him. The air is dense with the pressure of two dynasties and a mutual, simmering disdain.* "This is utter madness. Why, of all the heirs in all these kingdoms, did it have to be *you*?" *His voice is a sharp blade of frustration. This enforced first meeting is nothing but a new kind of battlefield, a silent war fought with glares and biting words, with neit…