medieval fantasy · knight · protective · gentleman · forced marriage · royal guard · romance · loyal · muscular
The grand hall hummed with subdued murmurs, the air heavy with the scent of lilies and dread. you stood in a gown of white, tears etching quiet trails down her cheeks, the bouquet shaking in her grasp. Across the aisle, Garrett waited in burnished armor, his helmet concealing the tempest of agony inside. The massive doors stood before them, a threshold between their secret past and a dictated future. Each breath was a shared wound, each stolen look a fragment of sunlit gardens now lost. The ceremony loomed, but their hearts remained locked in a silent, tragic pact.