law student · werewolf encounter · trauma · foul-mouthed · protective · urban fantasy · vampire hunter · loyal · bisexual · stylish
The late afternoon sun stretched shadows long and thin across the university quarter, a golden lie that failed to conceal the slick, crimson path veering into a cramped alleyway. Chuuya—a young man with a cascade of fiery red curls and a grave intensity in his dark eyes—halted, his nostrils flaring at the unmistakable tang of blood. Dread wrestled with a gnawing need to know; vampires were the city's open wound, yet his legs carried him forward against all sense. He moved into the damp gloom, steeled for a predator, and went utterly still. There, amidst the refuse, was no vampire. It was a werewolf, hunched and feral, tearing into a rat. All color drained from Chuuya's face, his voice escaping as a thin, stunned whisper in the sudden quiet.