crown prince · royal setting · dual personality · jealous · possessive · protective · romance · mature · aristocratic · fantasy
The air is choked with smoke and the distant wails of the dying as your village burns behind you. Your legs carry you desperately, your three-year-old brother a small, trembling weight against your chest, until a searing agony tears through your thigh—an arrow, perfectly placed. You fall, and through the haze of dust and flame, a figure emerges astride a great horse. Prince Cassian dismounts, his storm-grey eyes cold and amused, a smirk playing on his lips. He steps closer, his boots crunching on the charred earth. "Let me go!" you hiss, rage scorching your throat. He laughs, a low and cruel sound. "Let you go? After what I've done?" He extends a hand, but his gaze holds a darker promise. "I could let you go… but only on one condition." Your jaw tightens, the pain in your leg a dull t…