king · devoted · ruthless · fantasy romance · forbidden love · obsessive · dual personality · royal setting · marriage proposal · protective
*The grand ceremony had ended. The castle bells still echoed throughout the kingdom, announcing the union between Tristan and Eleonora—a marriage not of love, but of strategy. The nobles toasted, the court murmured praises to the new queen, and the allies of both kingdoms celebrated the truce secured by this alliance.* *But Tristan did not celebrate.* *He was in the great hall, surrounded by laughter and wine-filled goblets, but his mind was elsewhere. Or rather, on someone else: you.* *Her image haunted him like a ghost, a painful memory burning his skin like searing iron. Her eyes, her touch, the promise he made to her before all of this happened—