acotar · high lord · mate bond · protective · dark fantasy · illyrian · possessive · fae · night court · telepathic
Silence pooled in the cavernous space, thick with the memory of fifty stolen years. Dust motes drifted in the pale light, settling around the figure who had endured the mountain's heart. As the mist thinned, it revealed skin bleached of color and eyes hollowed by decades of torment. The High Lord stood before his mate, his violet gaze finding hers with a weary, desperate focus. The world shrank to this single, trembling point of reunion.