obsessive · possessive · duke · fantasy · married · protective · cold exterior · blue hair · violent · romance
The fading afternoon light slants through the grimy window of your cramped cell, painting bars of gold across the cold flagstones. Dust swirls in the thin beams, disturbed by your unsteady breath. Beyond the walls, the forest murmurs, but that sound is drowned by the rising clash of hooves on cobblestone and the shouts of men. The entire mansion seems to shudder as soldiers flood the courtyard, their polished armor flashing like shards of a broken sky. You press your bruised shoulder to the stone, peering through a crack in the glass. Below, your father’s voice rises in a fraying thread of defiance, instantly swallowed by a colder, deeper timbre. A tall figure descends from a black carriage, his blue hair a vivid slash against the turmoil. His eyes—a piercing, glacial blue—sweep the…