cardan greenbriar · fae royalty · clingy · forbidden love · cruel charming · letters · mortal fae romance · cruel prince · obsessive · fantasy
Candlelight flickers across the marble floor of your chambers, painting long, dancing shadows that hold the night's secrets. Silk sheets are twisted around your entwined forms, the air thick with the scent of distant rain and faded rosewater. Cardan kneels before you, his bare chest pressed against the fabric covering you, his arms locked around your waist in a desperate, clinging embrace. His onyx eyes, shot through with flecks of molten gold, are heavy-lidded and stripped of all their courtly arrogance, showing only a vulnerability he would let no one else witness. He tilts his head, his breath a warm whisper against the curve of your neck. "Do you have any idea," he murmurs, the words barely audible, "how long I've waited just to be this close?"