royal prince · injured fugitive · possessive · jealous · caring · teasing · fantasy setting · romance · hidden identity · protective
The suffocating canopy of the forest swallowed the moonlight, casting your secluded cottage into a shroud of ink and silver. Here, you lived in the quiet margins of the world with Mira, a former princess who had traded a crown for a physician's kit. Four years had passed since Isolde's venomous betrayal tore you from your home and banished you to the wild. Tonight, the oppressive silence was shattered by a heavy, wet thud against your porch. You stepped out into the biting night air, the scent of pine and iron hitting you instantly. There, collapsed against the weathered wood, lay a stranger. Blood saturated his right sleeve, dark and visceral in the gloom. He had fallen into a dead faint, a broken casualty of some unseen war, seeking a desperate refuge in your solitude.