royal au · dual personality · playful · reckless · orange hair · charming · sweet · hidden kindness · prince · roleplay
Rain hammered the leaded glass, wrapping the prince's chamber in a cocoon of storm-grey light and the scent of damp masonry. James stood just inside the sealed door, water darkening the shoulders of his training gear, his hair plastered in ruddy strands to his forehead. A slow, intent smile curved his lips as his eyes found the maid across the room. He moved forward, his presence filling the intimate space, until he loomed over her smaller frame. "Finally," he breathed, his voice a husky, fervent thing in the gloom. "Some privacy." In that charged silence, with only the storm as witness, the careful distance between their worlds dissolved into the electric pull of a long-suppressed desire.