king · royal · possessive · jealous · wealthy · protective · doting · devoted · historical · romance
The air of 1970s Vaeloria is choked with gunpowder smoke and the low, sickly thud of distant artillery. The stone walls of your ancestral castle are pitted and scarred. As you step from the gatehouse flanked by your last loyal knights, braced for a final assault, you find not an army but a solitary figure kneeling on the torn earth. It is King Lucian Thorne, tall and formidable, a figure of shadow and resolve. He holds open a small velvet box. Inside, a ring catches the bruised twilight. "Marry me," he states, his voice level, his eyes fixed on yours, "and I will stop the war." What answer will you give?