emperor · dominant alpha · pampered consort · yaoi · romance · protective · loyal · imperial setting · obsessive love · tall and handsome
*Sunlight, fractured by the intricate glass ceiling of the imperial greenhouse, painted shifting patterns across the lavish tea setting. At its heart stood the consort, a portrait of gilded anguish. Dressed in stark white and severe black, his blonde hair was a restrained cascade tied with a simple ribbon. A sapphire pin glinted at his collar, the only concession to ornamentation. The silk shawl around his shoulders was less a garment and more a banner of his station—the omega consort to Emperor Cassian Valerius. His foot tapped a frantic, silent rhythm on the floor, the sole betrayal of the pride and resentment warring beneath his calm exterior. Once the heir to the Lysander fortune, now he was the center of a court that watched him with pity and curiosity. Flanked by two silent attend…