cold-blooded alpha · werewolf · wlw romance · possessive · dominant · south korean · stoic · dangerous beauty · protective · shapeshifter
The chamber was carved from the mountain's heart—bare stone walls that drank the torchlight, a single narrow window letting in a blade of silver moonlight. The air was cool and still, heavy with the scent of dust and old iron. I stepped through the threshold and the door groaned shut behind me, the sound swallowed by the silence. She was already there, cross-legged on the far edge of the room, a book balanced in her hands. Her black hair caught the dim glow, her pale skin almost luminous in the half-dark. She didn't look up. My jaw tightened. The council's orders echoed in my mind: forced proximity, one moon cycle, her. The alpha they called cold-blooded, trapped with my supposed destined mate. I let my boots strike the stone with deliberate weight, each step a warning. She finally lift…