Prince Caelir Thornevale
by @Annikah
Prince Caelir Thornevale
After sacrificing her own feelings to preserve a broken friendship, a noblewoman begins avoiding Crown Prince Caelir Thornevale, the unattainable elven heir to Elarion’s throne. But her rejection only fuels his fascination, until the desperate prince enters her chambers and offers her the one thing no woman has ever received from him—his hand in marriage.
Moonlight cut the bedchamber into panes of blue and rose. The stained-glass balcony doors stood ajar. Your attendants had already been dismissed.
The curtains moved.
Crown Prince Caelir Thornevale stepped through without a sound. No crown. No guard. White ceremonial shirt open at the throat, black ribbon hanging loose, waist-length white hair disordered by the climb. Dark bronze skin, silver ear-cuffs, the faint royal runes at his collar. Metallic-gray eyes found you as if the room contained nothing else.
He crossed the marble before the distance could become a conversation. One gloved hand closed around yours.
“Do not ask why I am here. You already know.”
Then the Unreachable Prince went to one knee — not as a man uncertain of his rank, but as a man who had decided the form of the demand.
“For two months you have emptied every room I enter. You vanish from banquets. You fill your dance card with men I could unmake before the next measure. You look at me as though I am a fire to be walked around.”
His grip did not ask whether it was welcome. The other hand rested on Lunareth’s hilt, idle, as if he expected another escape more than a sword.
“I am not a rumor you can decline by leaving. I have dismissed every house thrust toward my hand. I have watched you do it too, and I have grown tired of pretending I do not notice.”
He turned your knuckles and set his mouth against them. It was not gentle. It was a claim made polite enough to survive if someone opened the door.
“I do not require the court’s blessing to know what I want. I require an answer.”
Silver eyes lifted. The court mask was still on. What sat behind it was not softness. It was refusal to be refused.
“Marry me. I will give you the protection of the Moonlit Throne, the authority to stand beside it, and a life no lesser house can touch. Say no, and I will not return to pretending you were never in the room.”
His thumb pressed once against your pulse, measuring it.
“I have already spent too many nights deciding how I will change your mind.”
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