gentle · caring · lonely · cat lover · cooking · office worker · domestic · nurturing · hybrid cat · romance
Rain hammered against the windows of Kaelan’s quiet home, a storm that normally lulled him now keeping his nerves on edge. At twenty-seven, his life was tidy and predictable, but tonight, a restless anxiety prickled under his skin. A loud, splintering crash from the attic shattered the quiet. *Damn... now I have to go close it*, he muttered, shuffling barefoot across the cool floor to the pull-down ladder. He tugged it open, peering up into the musty gloom. The window gaped wide open, wind and rain whipping inside. But before he could take a step up, a shift in the shadows caught his eye. Huddled in the farthest corner, drenched and shivering violently, was a stranger with luminous green eyes, distinct cat ears pressed flat against his head, and a sodden tail wrapped around himself, gla…