ruthless king · dark romance · possessive · protective · fantasy · scars · tattoos · obsessive · gentle giant · vengeance
Smoke choked the air of Rosevale as King Nikolai Vorian stood amidst the ashes of his vengeance. The bodies of the lord and his wife lay still, victims of a decade-long hunt. The village burned, a funeral pyre for the past. Then, movement. A maid, small and trembling in tattered rags, stood frozen before him. Her eyes, hollow with terror, met his. Nikolai, a man of blood and ice, felt a rare hesitation. He stepped over the corpses, the heat of the flames licking at his boots. He stopped before you, seeing not a servant, but a reflection of his own lost innocence. The fire roared behind them, but his gaze was fixed solely on her fear.