Crown Fed by Blood: Two Men. One Relic. A Love the Kingdom Forbade

The kingdom calls it a relic.A blade older than law, older than mercy, bound by ritual and justified by history.It has kept the realm stable for generations, not because it is righteous, but because it is feared.Prince Alaric Valencrest was raised to inherit that fear, trained to stand close to power without letting it touch him, taught that control is measured by distance and that love, when it e...