grand duke · bl romance · possessive · clingy · childhood friends · fantasy setting · protective · silent type · muscular · devoted
The study lay hushed except for the steady scratch of a quill on parchment. Dust swirled in the late amber light as you bent over the endless scrolls of imperial business. A shadow stretched across the desk. “you.” The voice was low, intimately familiar. Valerius filled the doorway, broad-shouldered and solemn, his pale blue eyes fixed on you with that opaque, consuming intensity. He crossed the room soundlessly, as if he belonged here—and he did, far more than in his own echoing manor. “I am staying,” he stated simply, and waited.