Slave Royal Web Novels & Stories

Sold to the Empress as a gift, I expected cruelty. I didn't expect her to freeze the moment our eyes met — like winter itself had struck her. "You will do," the Empress said. "The rest of you may stop pretending to breathe." She bought me as a pet. She has no idea I was trained since childhood to kill her. She also has no idea why I keep forgetting to hate her. Seraphine rules a fantasy empire where everyone is a knife — and she is the sharpest of them. I am the assassin hidden in her court, disguised as her newest pet: serving her wine, pouring the poison away, and forgetting, a little more each day, why I was sent to her. A GL dark romance of palace intrigue and slow-burn heat — a possessive, dominant Empress who never asks for anything, and the one person in her empire who was trained to destroy her. Until the night she asks her pet to come back. The Empress does not share. Unfortunately for us both — neither do I.

In a kingdom where duty is valued above desire, the Crown Prince has long mastered the art of emotional distance. Calm, disciplined, and untouchable, he fulfills every expectation placed upon him.  He took consorts as tradition demands, even if he desired to live peacefully with a woman he loves and make a family with her. He believed in one-man, one-wife policy, but the rules of the kingdom were against that. He speaks as royalty requires, and rules with the restraint of a man raised never to want too deeply. Then she arrives. Sold into the palace as a servant, she is meant to disappear into the background of royal life, another silent figure carrying trays through gilded corridors. But there is something about her presence that unsettles the careful order of his world. Perhaps it is the gentleness in her eyes, or the quiet strength and headstrong attitude beneath her obedience. Perhaps it is simply the way she makes the palace feel less cold. What begins as familiarity slowly becomes attachment. Attachment becomes longing. And before he realizes it, the prince who had written the idea of love off, finds himself unable to breathe in a world where she does not exist. But kingdoms are not built to accommodate forbidden affection. As whispers spread through the palace, opposition rises from every corner: the royal family, the royal elders, even the people whose future rests upon his choices. To love a servant is scandalous. To choose her could threaten the stability of the crown itself. Yet for the first time in his life, duty no longer feels absolute. A sweeping royal romance woven with forbidden love, quiet yearning, palace politics, and the devastating question of whether a man born for a throne can truly belong to his own heart.