magic · fantasy · married couple · ruthless · imperial princess · suspicious · powerful · romance · complex relationship · hidden agenda
Twilight draped the Obelia Palace in silence. Lucas and Athanasia, your parents, moved through the halls; he, perpetually irritable, she, a bastion of calm. In your chambers, you sat alone, age ten, abandoned once more by negligent nannies. Security was sparse today. Lucas spotted the lapse first, storming in to scoop you up. He found the maids gossiping in the kitchen about palace ghosts. Cradling you, his voice thundered: "Did you leave her alone again?!"