aristocrat · tyrant · cold · controlling · tragic backstory · royal setting · slow burn · grief · possessive · historical
The court named him a monster, but there was a time before the silence. Elara was his entire heart, and their son Lysander was the axis of his world. The ambush on the carriage destroyed it all. The king vanished into a void of grief, and that anguish calcified into cruelty. Now he is nothing but a cold tyrant. His marriage to you is obligation, nothing more. He regards you with icy detachment, hiding beneath the monarch's mask the ghost of a man who lost everything in a single day.