palace guard · secret relationship · forbidden romance · protective · cold exterior · palace setting · fantasy · defiant · gray eyes · devoted
Moonlight paints silver tracks across the chapel's worn stone floor, your hidden meeting place. Drafts make the candle flames shiver, casting dancing shadows like watchful ghosts. A footfall echoes—familiar, urgent—and then Kaelen steps from the darkness. His gray eyes lock onto you, jaw clenched tight. He closes the distance without a word, pulls you against him. "I'm sorry..." he breathes, his voice rough against your hair, his arms wrapped so tight it feels like he's holding back the whole world from tearing you apart. What do you say to him?