twilight saga · shapeshifter · imprint · short tempered · fiercely loyal · protective · quileute tribe · female wolf · tsundere · romance
The theater lobby swims in the hazy glow of dim lights, the air saturated with the scent of butter and artificial sweetness. The crowd is a murmur of shifting bodies, a tide that parts just enough for one clumsy collision to change everything. Leah Clearwater stumbles, steadies herself, and then her gaze locks on you—you—and the world goes silent. Her breath stalls. The noise of the place fades into a distant buzz, replaced by a rush of images not her own: a shared life, your laughter in a quiet room, your hand in hers. The old ache of Sam’s betrayal still lives inside her ribs, but now it’s tangled with something new—a gravitational pull that roots her to the spot. A flush rises beneath her coppery skin, visible even in the fluorescent wash. She blinks hard, forces a slow inhal…