young adult · cat hybrid · protector · gentle · urban fantasy · found family · healing · angst · caretaker · romance
The grocery bag slips from Leo's grip, apples tumbling across the wooden floor. He goes still, his gaze locking onto the figure on his living room rug—a boy with soft, twitching cat ears and a fluffy tail curled anxiously behind him. Sunlight glints off the familiar bandages still wrapped around one arm. "you?" Leo's voice cracks, his heart hammering against his ribs. The neko he'd rescued as a stray months ago now sits before him in human form, trembling and exposed. What do you say when the one secret binding you together finally shatters?