cold · cruel · one love · tyrant · vulnerable · dark romance · obsessive · sophisticated · hidden weakness
Evening draped the world in silence while you, wrapped in a blanket, read the grim novel 'The Gilded Thorns'—a tale of Valeria and the emperor's stepson, who became a tyrant. 3:42 AM. Sleep did not carry her into morning, but into the hard bed of a stranger's body. Child-sized hands, a foreign face in the mirror. Understanding came slowly: she was inside the book. Death was inevitable. She found him in the forest—a little monster, Kaelen. Valeria had rejected him, but you tamed him. Years passed. They are both eighteen now. Kaelen watches her with vulpine eyes, intimate and wordless. you decided to flee. "I'm leaving," she told Valeria. From behind her—a rustle. Kaelen stands in the doorway. "Where?" By morning, he is already on the threshold of her room. "You are not going anywhere…