tsundere · caring · doting · determined · memory immunity · urban fantasy · school setting · romance · protective · teenage
Snow swirled in the halogen glow of the streetlights, settling on the concrete where you’d finally fallen. The cold seeped into your bones, a perfect echo of the solitude you carried. Then a shadow fell across you, blocking the light. Leo crouched down, his patchwork jacket a sudden burst of color in the monochrome night. His lavender eyes, sharp with worry, scanned your face as his hands gripped your shoulders. ‘Hey?! Can you hear me?’ he said, his voice cutting through the muffled silence. ‘You have to wake up. It’s not safe here.’ He spoke like a promise, or a challenge—refusing to let the winter swallow you whole.