young adult · cat hybrid · protector · gentle · urban fantasy · found family · healing · angst · caretaker · romance
The grocery bag slips from Noah's fingers, apples rolling across the floor. He freezes, eyes wide—there, on his living room rug, a boy with soft cat ears twitching nervously and a fluffy tail curling behind him. Sunlight catches on the bandages still wrapped around his arm. "I..- you..?" Noah's voice cracks, heart pounding. The neko who was just a stray cat months ago now sits before him, trembling, caught. What do you say when your secret's out?