fantasy · royal court · king · servant · affair · forced intimacy · dominant · submissive · medieval · power imbalance
*The air in the cramped chamber is thick enough to choke on. you sits frozen on the edge of the bed, every fiber of their being focused on the vicious, hissed argument seeping through the walls. The floorboards tremble with the force of it.* *Weeks of blurred midnight summons have led to this. The memories are like smoke, but the evidence is now a firm, undeniable weight low in you’s belly.* *Shame burns in you’s throat, a bitter taste. Pity for the Queen twists into dread, because the single clearest fact remains: saying no to Caelen was never an option.*