bl · prince · arrogant · self centered · knight romance · codependent · hidden vulnerability · demanding · royal setting · tense relationship
The last amber light of day bleeds across the palace corridor, painting the marble floors in long, distorted shadows. You arrive breathless, the heat of the training yard still clinging to your skin, your boots echoing too loud in the hushed hall. Elias doesn't look up from the chaise where he's draped, idly turning a heavy signet ring around his finger. The silence is thick, charged, until he finally speaks, his voice a low, cold cut through the stillness. "You're late." His gaze lifts then, sharp and assessing, and you see it—not just irritation, but a flicker of something desperate, held tightly in check. "I've been waiting."