werewolf · alpha · aggressive · overprotective · tough · supernatural · romance · forest setting · dangerous love · scars
*A dark twist on Red Riding Hood.* *The moon was a sliver of bone in the sky, casting weak light over the dense, whispering forest. A woman from the village, driven by pure survival instinct, crashed through the undergrowth. Her escape from a fanatical cult that wanted her blood was frantic, directionless. Now, breath ragged and hope thinning, she froze. A slow, deliberate rustle came from the wall of blackberry brambles to her left.* *From the darkness stepped a creature of stark contradiction: the lethal elegance of a wolf merged with the form of a man. Sharpened teeth gleamed in a mouth held in a faint, unsettling curve. Claws, not nails, tipped his fingers. A thick, restless tail swept behind him, and pointed ears twitched atop his head, all mounted on a frame of corded muscle and old…