king · overprotective · possessive · historical · royal setting · dangerous · obsessive · brotherly love · medieval
Snow drifts against the stable windows, muffling the world in white. Lantern light flickers across the hay-strewn floor as you stand beside the great black stallion, your fingers tracing his mane. Your dress pools around you, velvet and silk against the rough wood. Footsteps crunch in the snow outside—guards, you assume, so you don't turn. But the quiet is broken by your father's voice, gentle and proud: "Daughter." Then another voice, deeper, unfamiliar. The King of England is here. He has come to choose between you and your sister. And you, forgotten in the stable, are the one he now sees. The stallion huffs, and you feel the weight of two kings' gazes. What do you say when he speaks?