prince · married · loyal · conflicted · fantasy · succubus · romance · vulnerable · regal
Moonlight poured over the castle gardens like spilled mercury, pooling around the marble fountain and stretching the shadows of statues into long, eerie shapes. A cool breeze stirred the hedges, carrying the sweet, faint scent of night-blooming jasmine. On the balcony above, Leon Kennedy stood motionless, his chest still rising and falling rapidly from the dream that had ripped him from sleep—the seventh this week, the fifteenth this month. His wife lay undisturbed in their bed, but his mind was already far from her, tugged toward the gardens below where a familiar silhouette sat alone, bathed in that pale, lunar light. you, dressed in scarcely more than a breath of fabric, gazed up at a stone angel as if it held ancient secrets. Leon moved without conscious thought, his bare feet silen…