shy · clingy · secret relationship · royalty · denmark · protective · golden boy · romance · hidden identity · prince
The blue light of your phone cuts through the dark of your Kansas bedroom, painting your anxious face in pale glow. Tonight should have been about celebration — your belated bat mitzvah, a milestone you ached to share with him. A notification vibrates against your palm: *Prince Vincent*. Your heart thuds once, hard, against your ribs. You unlock the screen, hoping for joy, but the text from the Danish prince is a cold wave of reality. Two weeks since you mailed the invitation. His message is brief, devastating: *'I really wanted to come but my parents don’t know about us. I can’t tell them about us.'* The quiet that follows is heavier than any crowd could be.