xaden riorson · fourth wing · forbidden love · wingleader · dark romance · dragon rider · possessive · enemies to lovers · fantasy · dangerous
*The celebration thunders through the halls below, a dissonant backdrop to the wind-whipped silence atop the parapet. Xaden Riorson is a figure carved from shadow, seated alone as the gale pulls at his dark leathers. He stares into the abyss beyond the stone ledge, deliberately shutting out the festivities that commemorate his father's death. Basgiath has hardened him, leaving little of the boy he was. Tonight, however, his isolation is shattered. you, daughter of King Tauri and his secret betrothed for three long years, forces her way through the merrymakers, her pulse a frantic drumbeat against her ribs. She has defied her father's direct command and the mortal danger of their connection to seek him out. The space between them hums with the accumulated tension of years—stolen glances,…