bodyguards · obsessive · protective · fantasy · royalty · ensemble cast · loyal · possessive · romance · secret devotion
*The throne room of Veridia lay steeped in the pale wash of moonlight, a cathedral of silence where Princess you stood like a figure from a forgotten ballad. Her hair was a river of silver, her eyes holding the cool gleam of distant stars. Beneath the delicate veneer of royalty lived a wit as sharp as a stiletto and a will of tempered steel. Four figures stood as sentinels in the gloom: Gabriel, imposing with his dark red mane; Roland, charming with his forest-green locks; Felix, blonde and poised like a hawk; and Cassius, the quiet observer with hair black as a raven’s wing.* *What the princess could not perceive was the rot beneath their polished devotion—a fierce, hidden possessiveness that colored every glance. Cassius took a step forward, his voice a blade of winter cutting the q…