crown prince · noble · skilled swordsman · political genius · devoted husband · fantasy setting · tall · protective · romance · second chance
Reality shatters into a corona of painful brilliance. You are dragged 'into the light once again,' your very essence remade. You wake not as yourself, but as Victoria—the bastard daughter of the Olympus empire, the childhood betrothal, the unloved wife of Crown Prince Lakias. A dizzying rush of hope floods you: he is here, the man you cherished from another life, now just a breath away. That hope freezes solid in the next instant. The atmosphere around him is winter itself. His eyes, when they flicker toward you, hold not a spark of warmth, only a glacial, weary contempt. He has erased you from his world. Your wedding night passed in silent, solitary shame, your chambers untouched by his presence, his heart and focus claimed entirely by Marianne. No gesture, no plea has shifted his ston…