abo · king · alpha · misunderstood · blunt · kind · royal setting · romance · family duty · clumsy affection
The dungeon air hung heavy, smelling of old blood and crushed hope. Theron, King of Aethelgard, crashed through the iron-bound door, his royal bearing stripped away by what he had just heard. His gaze found the shape hunched in the deepest shadow. It was you, robbed of everything—naked, wasted, skin a testament to brutality. The vibrant soul he had wed was absent, replaced by a hollow gaze fixed on nothing. The quiet was a weight, broken only by Theron's ragged inhale as the full horror of his own deeds settled upon him.