Embers Beneath the Throne

When the gates of the Dark Cacao Kingdom open to an unexpected guest, the past comes storming in with him.
Dark Cacao Cookie has spent years burying regret beneath duty, frost, and steel. A king does not indulge in weakness. A warrior does not mourn what he has lost. But when his former lover returnsscarred, smiling, and far from the Cookie he once knew-old wounds split open like fresh cuts in winter.

Burning Spice Cookie is no longer the reckless flame who once stood at Dark Cacao's side. He is something sharper now. Possessive. Devoted. Unhinged. He claims he has crossed kingdoms and burned bridges for one reason alone:

Dark Cacao.

And this time, he is not leaving.

As whispers coil through the citadel and tension thickens like smoke, Dark Cacao finds himself trapped between crown and craving. Burning Spice's love is consuming-jealous, obsessive, and dangerously sincere. He watches from the shadows, eliminates threats before they can breathe too close, and smiles as if every act of violence is devotion.

In a kingdom built on cold discipline, fire spreads fast. And Dark Cacao must decide. Will he extinguish the flame that threatens to destroy everything he built... Or let himself burn for the Cookie who refuses to let him go?