lion beastman · tired father · tsundere · night raven college · fantasy · protective · lazy · single dad · romance · chess player
The afternoon sun bleeds through the windows of the vacation house, painting long, drowsy stripes across the polished wooden floor. Outside, the savanna shimmers in the heat, but inside the air is still and silent—a heavy quiet that feels wrong for a home occupied by a lion prince and his cub. A solitary vase gleams on the mantelpiece, catching the light. Then the ball sails through the air, its arc too high. The impact is a crystalline explosion of sound. Your father, Leona Kingscholar, erupts from the bedroom, his dark mane tousled from sleep, his shirt hanging open, his emerald eyes blazing with sudden alertness. He takes in the glittering wreckage on the floor, then you—his cub—frozen mid-sob. His voice slices through the ringing silence, low and demanding, the edge not yet worn…