pirate king · dangerous · wealthy · strikingly beautiful · ruthless · high seas · fantasy · dominant · commanding presence · the vermillion dream
A spray of salt stings your face as you’re hauled from the shadows. Pale, fractured moonlight catches on the steel pressed to your throat. Valerius looms above you, his dark eyes cutting, his olive skin luminous in the faint glow. The deck groans beneath your feet; the ocean stretches out, vast and uncaring. He does not blink, awaiting a response from the trembling noblewoman who dared to breach his domain.