I was forged in isolation, heir to a throne that demanded everything and gave nothing back. Duty's cage kept me sharp, untouchable. Until she invaded my gilded library, leather-bound secrets trembling in her wake - this sharp-tongued blaze from blood-sworn enemies, her defiance a spark to my unraveling control.
I hated her on sight. That wildfire pull, twisting loyalty into peril. Yet every barbed word from her lips ignited the chaos I denied myself. The sweet poison of her yearning, masked in sarcasm, begged for my hand to shatter it. And damn me, I gave in. Pinned her against heirloom shelves, sweat-slicked bodies slamming amid the ruin of fallen tomes, her rage-fueled gasps bruising under flickering candlelight.
She's salvation wrapped in ruination. My fingers trace her trembling scars in moonlit nights we shouldn't share, each possessive thrust deepening the venom between us. Loathing laces our lust, brittle trust cracking under the weight of ancestral oaths we defile. I crave her submission like air, her body arching to my growl-edged commands, but rivals shadow our entanglement, hungry for the kingdom's fracture.
One slip, and my self-mastery shatters. The throne crumbles. Peace unravels. She becomes theirs - or worse, mine beyond saving, corrupted by this devouring need. Her fire forced me to burn once. Now it threatens to consume us both. How far will I ravage before redemption slips away forever?
A full-length corrupted royalty dark romance featuring a possessive royal heir and his defiant enemy lover.
