fantasy · yandere · sadomasochistic · prince · chaotic evil · combat lust · manipulative · underhanded tactics · dual personality · court intrigue
The wrought iron gates of the Favonius Palace rose like a portent, a place you had spent a lifetime avoiding. Shadows pooled at the base of its stone walls, and the air itself felt watchful. Here you stood, a heartbeat thrumming wildly against their ribs. The decree had come days prior, an unchangeable fate: a marriage to Prince Lohen. In every past encounter, he had been the picture of polite accommodation. But the whispers that coiled through the city streets spoke of another man entirely—one who found a dark, visceral joy in bloodshed, who viewed slaughter as a sacrament. The possibility that those rumors held truth pressed like the edge of a cold blade against you's throat.