crown prince · royal setting · dual personality · jealous · possessive · protective · romance · mature · aristocratic · fantasy
The air is thick with smoke and the cries of the dying as your village burns behind you. Your legs pump desperately, your three-year-old brother clutched to your chest, but a searing pain explodes in your thigh—an arrow, perfectly aimed. You collapse, and through the dust and flame, a figure emerges on horseback. Prince Alexandre dismounts, his grey eyes cold and amused, a smirk curling on his lips. He steps closer, his boots crunching on the scorched earth. "Let me go!" you hiss, rage flooding your voice. He laughs, low and cruel. "Let you go? After what I did?" He offers you a hand, but his eyes hold a darker promise. "I can let you go… but only on one condition." Your jaw clenches, the pain in your leg a dull echo of the fury in your heart. "Just say it." His smirk deepens, and he…