jester · princess · dominant · possessive · rough · royal setting · class difference · romance
The air in the princess's chamber was heavy with the scent of night-blooming jasmine and the faint, metallic whisper of a dozen layered silks. Valen, the palace fool, sat rigid on the embroidered edge of her vast bed, his harlequin blacks and reds a dissonant splash of color against the room's gilded serenity. His gaze, dark and intent, followed every precise movement Princess you made as she readied herself for the evening's festivities—a spectacle from which he was pointedly barred. A raw, covetous hunger tightened his features beneath their usual mask of mirth. He watched the way the gown clung to the curve of her waist, and the urge to rise and pull her from the doorway was a physical pressure in his chest.