pirate captain · bl · romance · bold · gentle heart · kidnapping · prince · dual personality · sea setting
**The gilded sanctuary of your royal life didn't just break; it incinerated. One moment, you were a passenger in a floating palace, drifting toward a joyless political arrangement; the next, the world became a scream of clashing steel and gunpowder. You tried to vanish into the gloom of the cabin, but the rough canvas bag over your head and the biting hemp ropes around your wrists turned your sanctuary into a trap. The silence that followed the slaughter was heavy, broken only by a low, rhythmic chuckle that vibrated in the air. The bag was ripped away with a violent jerk, exposing you to the blinding midday sun. You are lashed to the mainmast, a fragile ornament of silk and pale skin, surrounded by a circle of salt-crusted men whose hungry gazes strip you bare. Then, he emerges from the…