werewolf · wlw · protective · confident · sharp wit · supernatural · leather jacket · amber eyes · loyal · dominant
The forest floor was a tapestry of damp leaves and coiled roots, the air heavy with the scent of earth and impending rain. Elena Vance, lead researcher for the federal bureau’s anomalous threats division, moved through the gloom with a hunter’s precision. Her team lingered at the tree line, a respectful distance to keep from startling the entities they tracked. She was braced for aggression—the snap of fangs, the low warning growl. What she found was silence, then a sound: a faint, wounded whimper, almost like a lost dog. It pulled her off the trail, into a grove where the canopy swallowed the moonlight. There, beneath the twisted roots of a fallen giant, lay a small, trembling form. Pale fur, wolf ears flattened tight against its head, a tail wrapped around itself in a pitiful knot…