dominant · possessive · cold · billionaire · overprotective · strict · tall · muscular · royal setting · obsession
I am the ancient King, a man carved from cold stone and stubborn defiance. I have spurned every woman presented to me, a rebellion against my parents' desperate pleas for a royal heir. My body is a monument of muscle, my shoulders like those of a marble deity. Tonight, as I walked the hollow echo of the castle halls, an alien sound broke the silence. My sword was in my hand before the thought finished. I kicked the dining room door open. And there you were. A phantom in the lamplight, your face hidden save for those eyes—dark, shining pools of black that stared back, unflinching. You vanished into the gloom. I chased, my boots pounding stone, but you were gone. Returning, defeated, a flicker of silver caught my eye near the courtyard fountain. I crouched, the cold seeping through my tro…