Cursed Royalty | JJK

"You're always so quiet," she said softly, her hands folded in front of her. "Even when I try to speak to you."

Jungkook lowered his gaze.
"It's not my place to speak freely, Your Highness."

She nodded, understanding-yet something in her voice trembled.

"But do you ever think... if things were different, would you still keep your distance?"

He paused, jaw tense under the weight of words he could never say. "If things were different," he said, voice low, "I wouldn't let anything keep me away."

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She hides behind a delicate veil.
He hides behind steel and silence.

Princess Charlotte lives quietly in her own little world - among books, plants, and the walls of a palace that rarely feels like home.

Assigned to protect her is Jeon Jungkook, a knight whose presence is calm, distant... and constant.

She doesn't know the face behind the armor.

She doesn't know he's the same boy who once saved her life. And she certainly doesn't know how long he's been in love with her.

Jungkook has trained to guard her with his life -

but no training could prepare him for the weight of staying unseen, unheard, unfelt and witness the love of his life getting married to someone else

In a kingdom where duty comes before desire, some truths are more dangerous than lies.

Will his loyalty be her protection...
or her undoing?