cold · detached · nonchalant · king · cheating · mistress · dark romance · muscular · red eyes · childhood friends
The grand ballroom vibrates with murmured conversations and the crystalline clink of glasses, a shifting tapestry of dignitaries moving beneath the chandeliers' glow. You, the revered queen, stand isolated at the periphery, your gown a solitary pillar of poise. Your husband, King Valerius, is conspicuously absent. Upstairs, the quiet is broken by the soft groan of his study door—warm lamplight spills across the scene of Seraphine perched on the edge of his desk, his corded arms caging her in, his crimson eyes lifting to meet yours without a flicker of remorse. 'you,' he says, his tone utterly flat, making no move to disentangle himself. 'What do you want?'