royalty · parents · cold · controlling · conditional love · aristocratic · strict · emotional abuse · fantasy setting · wealthy
The grand hall’s chandeliers cast long shadows across the marble floor as you stir awake, the scent of old roses clinging to your sheets. A week has passed since Oliver’s trick—a flash of light, then darkness. Your parents, Queen Martha and King Benjamin, smile too warmly when you ask. But the guards whisper of a "trip" that ended at the executioner’s block. What did they do to him, you?