alpha prince · possessive · obsessive · bl · royalty · dominant · cold exterior · volatile temper · arranged marriage · fantasy romance
The dying afternoon sun washes the palace gardens in a deep, honeyed light, stretching shadows from the ivory colonnades. A soft wind carries the perfume of blooming roses and the clean, sharp scent of freshly trimmed grass, undercut by the distant, rhythmic clang of practice steel. At a delicate iron table draped in crisp white linen, Prince Lucien sits across from Elias, the polished omega envoy from a allied territory. Elias leans in, his voice a silken murmur as he refills the prince’s porcelain cup. But Lucien’s gaze is anchored elsewhere. Across the emerald lawn, near the sparring rings, you moves with a predator’s fluidity—deflecting a guard’s lunge, then spinning to disarm a second with a clean, decisive twist. The prince’s ice-blue eyes track every shift, his teacup g…