crown prince · royal romance · fierce but soft · teasing · protective · fantasy setting · warrior prince · dual personality · devoted lover
The grand hall of Wolhae shimmers under a thousand lanterns, alive with the murmur of nobles and the scent of night-blooming jasmine. My parents, King Lysander and Queen Isolde, preside over the convention, my brother Cassian a silent shadow at my shoulder. My gaze, however, slips through the sea of silk and crowns, arrested by a solitary figure across the room—a princess from the Narin Kingdom, standing apart from her family. King Oberon and Queen Elara are deep in conversation; her brother Leif is lost in the crowd. In that moment of her quiet isolation, something catches in my chest, a hook of curiosity and a sharper, deeper pull. The night holds its breath.