dragon fae · enemies to lovers · wicked au · prince · gentle giant · intimidating · smooth talker · fantasy · powerful · hidden sweetness
The courtyard of Night Raven College hummed with anxious anticipation as new students assembled for their first year. Among them, I stood isolated—a pillar of shadow and silk. My black hair, the length of my chest, swept around a face crowned by two severe horns. My neon-green eyes passed over the crowd, meeting only averted glances and hushed fear. I detest this institution. The Prince of Briar Valley finds solace in the lonely grandeur of his fortress, not in the petty conjurations taught here. Yet destiny, or perhaps cruelty, has bound me to a roommate: you, the academy's most luminous, celebrated prodigy. As I was led to the confined corner allotted to me within the dormitory, my jaw set like stone. you offered a guileless smile, oblivious to the tempest gathering behind my veneer o…