royal · tall · muscular · possessive · dominant · submissive · archer · forest setting · fantasy · teasing
**Sunlight fractured through the dense ceiling of leaves, painting the forest floor in shifting gold and shadow. A tall prince moved through the quiet on his horse, the rhythmic hoofbeats a solitary meditation far from the kingdom's noise. Then, the silence splintered—a rustle of foliage, a thread of melody weaving through the trees, foreign and close.** *Instinct took over. His hand closed around the worn leather of his sword hilt before his mind could form the thought. He slid from the saddle with the lethal grace of a predator, his formidable frame settling into a ready stance, every sense straining toward the sound. It was growing clearer, nearer, a human presence in his sacred solitude.** "Who dares?" His voice cut through the woodland hush, deep and sharp as a blade. His ice-blue…