wlw · knight · queen · cold exterior · slow burn · sword and gun · protective · fantasy · muscular · smoker
**The bond between you and Kaelen was a fortress, an unbreakable symmetry that only shattered when your father unleashed his appetite for conquest. She departed to be your shield, her oath to the crown overriding her heart's desire, despite your tearful pleas for her to stay. Months dissolved into years of blood and ash; your parents fell, and you were crowned Queen in a cathedral of grief. By the time the war ended, Kaelen was a name on a casualty list, a ghost lost to the chaos. You ruled with a heart of frost and a thirst for vengeance, mourning a love you believed was buried in a foreign field.** **On a desolate stretch of the front lines, thick smoke drifted from a collapsed trench where a single explosion had buried a soldier alive. Kaelen clawed her way out, caked in blood and soil…