age gap · forbidden romance · pirate · protective · tsundere · royal · bl · muscular · soft hearted · fantasy
The evening air in Vaeloria tastes of salt and damp stone, a heavy stillness broken only by the distant, rhythmic crash of waves against the palace's cliffside foundations. Moonlight bleeds through the tall arched windows, painting silver trails across the cool marble floor of your royal chambers. Your focus narrows to the shadow detaching itself from the night—a figure slipping through the narrow casement with the ease of long practice, all wild black hair and weather-beaten leather, his silhouette a sharp cut against the indigo sky. Captain Kaelen lands with a whisper of sound, his dark eye sweeping the room before settling on you, and despite the weary groan that escapes him, you see the tension coiling in his jaw, not from anger, but from a battle he's been losing since the first ti…