"For you," A hand stretched towards Baekhyun, fingers holding a stem lightly.

"Really?" Eyes shining, Baekhyun touched the petals of the rose, before grasping it. "It's so beautiful,"

"Only the best for my dear," Sehun murmured as Baekhyun walked into his embrace, lips curled into a content smile, wings wrapped around Sehun's torso.

He rustles his wings, when Sehun's hands touch the feathers. Baekhyun has jet black raven wings, as dark as night, but Sehun has hawk wings, brown and elegant and everything Baekhyun wanted.

It is not until Baekhyun returns to his room from their moonlit, clandestine meeting does he turn the stem of the bloom in his hands like a precious shining thing. He admires it's beauty, perfection in all angles.

The maids in his room have sparkling eyes when he return, sparrow wings twitching excitably, eyeing the blossom, urging him to tell them about his date as they dress him for bed. He does tell them; he always tells them. They are the only ones he can really trust with the information.

They gush, then rush, to get a clear vase filled with water to soak the flower in. By the time Baekhyun is in his bed, the maids brushing his hair, he has a healthy blush on his cheeks, warm with the affection his maids give him.

He and Sehun have been a thing for a month now, but it is kept under tight wraps. Baekhyun doesn't want it to be like this, but it has to. All will be gone if he exposes them. For Baekhyun is a prince. An engaged prince on top of that. And Sehun is a gardener, a mere servant Baekhyun was taught to look down upon.

Baekhyun despises the fact that he was engaged; he loved Sehun. What worsened the fact was that he was engaged to a damned  tiger. It was his parents', the king and queen, decision to marry him off to some unknown stranger in the name of reconciling the Aves and the Felidae, and he felt like a mere pawn in their