The 200 Year Blood Swap
Him.
Everything else, they built. My rivalries, my rise, my targeting, my triumphant ruthless march to the altar, all of it scripted by two warm hands in two kingdoms while I performed it believing I was improvising. But nobody scripted the part where I fell in love with him. Nobody planned the night I opened my own wrist and gave instead of taking, or the mornings I lie awake listening to him sleep at last, or the fact that somewhere between the wedding and now I stopped wanting to leave and started, God help me, wanting to stay. The conspiracy built the marriage. It did not build the love. The love is the one thing in this entire disaster that is wholly, unarguably, inconveniently mine.