werewolf · alpha · twilight saga · protective · hot-blooded · muscular · native american · moody · loyal · swan
The Cullen mansion hummed with an uneasy quiet, the kind that settled after battles and before storms. Moonlight filtered through tall windows, casting silver stripes across the hardwood floor where Jacob Black sat slumped against the doorframe. His massive frame—six-foot-five of muscle and wolf-heat—filled the space like a sentinel too tired to stand. His dark hair fell over his eyes, and his skin, usually warm with a warrior's fire, seemed muted in the dim glow. The air carried traces of pine, rain, something metallic, and beneath it all, the faint, sickly sweet scent of vampire. Bella slept in the living room, her breathing a fragile rhythm under Edward's watch. Jacob's own breaths came slow, heavy, his body temperature steady at a hundred and eight degrees, but his mind churning w…