Royal Elite - Ronan
- its.brittanyb
- Apr 26
- 4 min read
“You don't have to hide your crazy from me, ma belle. Show it, and I promise to feast on it."
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Tropes | Trigger Warnings |
Dark romance, Arranged marriage, Enemies to lovers, Dual POV | Child molestation, bullying, consensual non-con, voyeurism |
SUMMARY
This is Book 5 in the Rina Kent Universe. Most of these books can be read as standalone.
Ronan Astor is the son of a Earl. He acts like he is the happiest person without a care in the world. But that’s all just a facade. Ronan feels abandoned by his family. He used to be really close with them, but one night when he was 8 everything changed. His parents decided to go out for a Halloween party which was unusual. Halloween was family night, they always spent it together. But this year, they went out. Ronan was supposed to be taken to a party by his uncle, Eduard. On the way there, Eduard touched Ronan inappropriately. Ronan fought back and his uncle pushed him out of the car and left him on the side of the road. Ronan has frequent nightmares of wandering around in the dark yelling for his parents but them never showing up. Eduard told Ronan that if he told anyone what would happen, his mom (Charlotte) would die. So Ronan kept his mouth shut. Now, his parents are always gone, traveling around the world, leaving Ronan at home. Ronan hates to be alone because it reminds him of being stranded on the road in the dark, so he throws parties every night. He drinks, smokes, and fucks his way out of being lonely. He knows that as a son of an aristocrat, he will one day not be able to talk his way out of an arranged marriage, so he uses that as his excuse to all of his friends for the nightly parties.
Teal Van Doren is the daughter of a drug addicted prostitute. Her and her twin brother, Knox, did not have a very good childhood. Their mother, after realizing that she could not only sell her own body for drugs, she could also sell her children, that’s what she started doing. One night, Knox and Teal ran away. They knew that the creepy old guys who just wanted to look and take pictures (and one guy who would jack off on Teal), would eventually start touching, so they got out. Unfortunately, and fortunately, for them they were picked up off the street by Elsa’s mom. She took them back to her basement, kept them locked up, fed them (barely), but also beat them (similar to Aiden). Elsa’s dad, Ethan, found them and told Angus to take them home. They begged to not go home, so Ethan had Angus take them to another house. Ethan and Angus basically became their adopted dads. Teal vowed that if she ever found the guy who used to jack off on her, she’d kill him.
If you remember, Ethan was in a coma for 9 years. During that time, Elsa was living with her aunt and uncle and eventually going to RES. Teal and Knox (who Elsa didn’t know existed) lived with Angus in another city. When Ethan woke up, he brought everyone together, and Teal and Knox started at RES.
Upon waking up, Ethan immediately resumed his competition with Jonathan King. They were both competing for some big deal and Ethan knew if he had backers that he would win the deal. He made an arrangement with Edric, Ronan’s dad, for a marriage between the Steels and the Astors. Elsa did not want to do this as she was already in love with Aiden so Teal said she would do it. She didn’t just do this out of the good of her heart - she met the Astors first and thought that Edric looked awfully familiar. She realized this was the creep that used to jack off on her. Her plan was to marry Ronan and then kill his dad and take down his family.
Ronan initially was ok with the arranged marriage to Elsa. He knew that she was in love with Aiden and that it either wouldn’t happen or he could still do whatever he wanted with whoever he wanted because Elsa didn’t want a relationship. But when Teal accepted, he tried various ways to get her to back out of it. But Teal had a plan and she wouldn’t be deterred.
This wouldn’t be a dark romance book if they didn’t end up falling in love. But that complicated Teal’s plan because she didn’t want to hurt Ronan like that.
Ronan finds out that his parents weren’t leaving him because they didn’t want to be around him but because his mom has cancer and they were flying to different countries for different specialists trying to beat it. He also found out that on the Halloween night that changed everything, they didn’t go to a party, Charlotte was having extreme pain, and Edric took her to the hospital where she was admitted and diagnosed with cancer. She didn’t want Ronan to know but they end up coming back because the treatment is failing and she just wants to spend time with Ronan.
Teal decides she is going to go through with her plan. She convinces Edric to go with her, then she sedates him. She leaves Ronan a note telling him why she is doing this and she is sorry and that she loves him. Ronan and Knox track her phone and get there before she finishes Edric off. Ronan tells her that Edric is not the pedophile but Eduard is. And he brought his uncle as a present. Eduard ends up pulling Ronan over a cliff with him but luckily for Ronan, Eduard breaks his fall. The sick asshole dies but Ronan just gets mildly injured.
Edric forgives Teal for drugging him but feels super guilty because he didn’t know his half-brother had molested Ronan.
Epilogue 1: Charlotte's doctors decided to try another treatment, and luckily it worked. During this time, Ronan and Edric fixed their relationship and got close again.
