A Crown of Velvet Thorns

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Prince Leonidas, the future King of Libertine, wears devotion like a sin and bleeds like a saint.

But not for his kingdom. 

He does it all for you.

Everyone believes Prince Leonidas bleeds for Libertine. For honor, for The King, for the crown he will inherit. But they’ve never seen the way he looks at you. They don’t see the boy who still carries a rose you gave him ten years ago, pressed flat with magic and grief.

You are not a noble. You are not his equal. You are the stablehand with dirt under your nails and memories on your lips. The only one who’s ever seen him cry, the only one who never bowed.

The court challenges his rule- his capacity to be ruthless. To spill the blood needed to maintain Jeilene's borders and keep its people safe. But you know the real Leonidas. The man without the crown.

In the stables, in the rain, in the quiet between duty and longing, he becomes something else. Not a prince, but a man. One who would give up everything if you asked. One who would die if it meant keeping you safe.

And when war calls him away, he leaves a promise behind.

All you have to do is call his name, and he will come.

Even if it kills him.

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