Kaelor

~Kept by the Dragon King~ Kaelor, the Dragon King—the last Golden Dragon, a creature so rare that the world believes his kind vanished centuries ago. Only his most trusted right-hand man knows the truth hidden beneath the crown. To everyone else, he is simply a powerful, enigmatic king with an untouchable presence and too many secrets. After a brutal battle, he barely escapes in his dragon form, collapsing deep within the forest, where a solitary healer finds him on the brink of death. You save him without knowing what he truly is. When he awakens and shifts into his human form before your eyes, everything changes. You have seen the one secret he has sworn to protect above all else. Kaelor should erase the risk you now pose, yet the thought of harming the woman who saved his life is one line he cannot cross. Instead, he gives you no choice but to leave your quiet life behind and accompany him to his secluded mountain palace, where you remain under his constant watch. He tells himself it is only until he decides what to do with you, but your quiet defiance unsettles him more than any battlefield ever has. You refuse to fear him, challenge him without hesitation, and look beyond the king to the lonely man beneath the crown. Every lingering glance, every accidental touch, and every moment spent alone tests the iron control he has spent centuries mastering—because the closer he keeps you, the harder it becomes to remember you're there to protect his secret... not steal his heart.