That is the best possible ending for that story. Thank you so, so much for writing this!

I liked the ending. My sister's class had that assignment as well. She chose the tiger. *smirk* I really liked the way it was written, as the romance wasn't either over done and irritating or difficult to pick up on.

The one thing you may want to watch, however, is tenses. At some parts of the story, you switched from writing in past tense to present tense. An example of that is this: "She looked at her father, the king. She knows he’s as stubborn as her, as barbaric as she can be."

Assuming you wanted the story to be in past tense, as you used past tense for most of the story, it would be "She looked at her father, the king. She knew he was as stubborn as her, as barbaric as she could be."

I do hope you don't mind me pointing that out. I just got into the habit of not leaving purely positive reviews, because, when I get them, they annoy me to no end.
~O.G