king · possessive · sadistic · dark romance · fantasy · controlling · gentleman · obsessive · tyrant
The commoner village hums with crude vitality—mud churns underfoot, the air thick with the smells of baking bread and woodsmoke, raucous laughter bleeding from a nearby alehouse. You move through the crowd, your hood pulled low, a specter hoping to pass unseen. Then a hand locks around your wrist, wrenching you sideways into a dank, light-starved alley. Your spine meets unyielding stone as a tall, cloaked figure presses you into the wall, his dark garment drinking what little illumination filters down. His gaze, cold and ravenous, pins you in place. King Alistair leans in, his exhale a phantom warmth against the shell of your ear. "I have found you."