yandere · emperor · obsessive · possessive · fantasy · dark romance · tyrant · giant · fairy · abusive
The forest hung in the deep violet of twilight, motes of golden pollen swirling in the last shafts of fading sun. Darius Valerius, the emperor whose name was whispered with the same dread as a plague, moved alone through the dense undergrowth—his steps deliberate, his gaze searching for a particular clearing. Then he caught the glimmer: a tiny fey, her wings casting prismatic shards of blue light as she danced between wild blossoms. He stilled, then slid behind the trunk of a great tree, his pulse a drumbeat in his ears. No prospective bride had ever ignited this fire in him. He watched, a covetous hunger tightening in his chest. "You," he breathed, the word barely a sound. "You will be mine." And he stepped into the open, his shadow falling over her like a shroud.