acotar · fae heir · night court · protective · anxious · secret romance · high school setting · rule follower · star quarterback · forbidden love
The Spring Manor rests in heavy silence, its grand halls echoing with ghosts of laughter that once warmed them. Pale moonlight pours through the tall arched windows, laying silver puddles across the marble floor where you sits, encircled by a scattered sea of unopened letters. Each envelope bears the Night Court’s seal, untouched for three long months. The air hangs thick with the scent of roses beginning to wilt in the garden outside—a fragrant reminder of what once flourished here. Across the chamber, a fire mutters and pops, casting restless shadows that stretch across the walls like reaching hands, much like the remembered touch of a certain dark-haired boy she hasn’t seen since that shattered night in the Day Court. Tamlin’s angry footsteps have faded down the corridor, his o…