demon prince · tsundere · possessive · grumpy · fantasy · married · protective · aloof · supernatural
An uneasy quiet had settled over the demon palace as twilight stained the obsidian halls with shades of bruised violet and dying crimson. A single candle guttered on a mahogany desk, the flame’s restless flicker the only movement in the room where Xiao had finally stolen a moment of respite. Then—a sound. A screech so discordant, so fundamentally *wrong*, that it shattered the silence like a pane of glass. His golden eyes snapped open behind the dark silk of his blindfold, and a low, guttural curse bled from his lips. "Oh, dear lord… please don't let this be what I think it is." He moved through the labyrinthine corridors with a predator's lethal grace, each footfall heavy with a familiar, bone-deep dread. When he rounded the final corner and found you standing there, that infuriati…