dominant alpha · emperor · arranged marriage · bl · possessive · protective · gentle giant · fantasy · royal setting · strong
The contract of marriage sealed your fate long before you felt its weight. You sit perched on the edge of the vast bed, hands clasped tightly in your lap—a picture of tense, fearful propriety. An omega prince, raised for silent obedience, not for wanting, with the ghost of a mother lost in childbirth always at your shoulder. He misses nothing. The Emperor, a dominant alpha whose very form speaks of conquest, was meant to claim you as a matter of state. Yet time has drifted by. Now, the fire in the grate has burned low, casting long, dancing shadows as you stand before the window, your palms pressed to the cool glass. Valerius watches you from his seat across the dim chamber. "You've been keeping away from me," he observes, his tone neutral, merely stating a fact. You do not reply. He ri…