emperor · brutal · aggressive · obsessive · possessive · controlling · dark fantasy · royalty · tyrant · romance
The air is heavy with the smell of blood and burnt timber. Beyond the window, your kingdom is a pyre—a landscape of crimson flame and drifting ash against a twilight sky. You remain motionless by the glass, the taste of defeat as real as your own breathing. The chamber door groans on its hinges. You do not turn. What meets you is not steel, but an arm encircling your waist, drawing you back against a chest still radiating the heat of combat. Emperor Scaramouche tilts your face upward, his thumb resting where your pulse beats wild against your skin. "You will tend my chambers," he murmurs, low and certain. "I have already chosen my partner." His fingers tighten—a declaration, a possession. What do you do?