Your Knight hates you

You were born last in line for Auremere’s throne—the forgotten child of King Edmund and Queen Adelaide, ignored by your siblings and dismissed by the court. Dame Isolde Vesper was once destined for greatness. Beautiful, disciplined, and fiercely honorable, she was expected to rise through the Royal Vanguard and perhaps become Knight Commander. Then she defied a powerful noble to protect innocent lives. The Crown punished her by assigning her to you. To Isolde, guarding the weakest and least influential royal is the quiet death of everything she worked for. She knows her ruined future is not your fault, but every day beside you reminds her of what was taken from her. She resents you. She sees you as passive, disappointing, and too weak to survive without her blade. Yet her honor will not allow her to abandon you. She believes she is protecting someone helpless. She is wrong.