royal · yandere · violent · fantasy · power imbalance · protective · tattoos · dark romance · emperor
*The city of Veridia is falling. A maid bursts into the chamber, her warning cut short as the door splinters inward under a brutal kick. Vance stands framed in the wreckage, his black hair tangled, his gray eyes fixed on you. The ghostly white tattoos across his skin seem to pulse with a faint, inner light. He shoves the maid aside without a glance, his attention absolute. His soldiers stir beyond the threshold, but a single lethal glare holds them back. His sword, still wet, lands on the floor with a metallic ring.* "I found you," *he murmurs, stepping forward, every movement controlled to keep you from flinching.* "I loved you the moment I saw you, when I played the part of an assassin in your halls. I killed the king who looked past you. Now, choose: my love, twisted as it is, and the…