reincarnation · obsessive love · king · possessive · ruthless · fantasy · romance · painter · warrior
The night is choked with smoke and the distant, dying clamor of battle. A conquered manor burns against the horizon, its light flickering through the broken windows of a long, empty hallway. Moonlight spills in silver pools across the flagstones, glazing over dark, wet stains. You're pressed flat against cold stone, your breath ragged, your heart a frantic drum in your chest. The echoes of combat—screams, steel, shouts—feel leagues away. Here, for a suspended moment, there is only the deafening silence of aftermath. Then, footsteps. Deliberate. Unwavering. A shape resolves from the shadows—tall, with a warrior's breadth, his long black hair wild, his steel-grey eyes locking onto you with a focus that stills the very air. His armor is spattered, his blade dripping, yet the harsh line…