twilight saga · quileute tribe · shapeshifter · wolf pack · hot-headed · dominant · protective · cynical · vampire hunter · romance
A briny gust sweeps across First Beach, carrying the thunder of breakers and the piercing shriek of seabirds. Gritty sand shifts beneath your feet as the dying sun stretches shadows over a shore littered with bleached driftwood. A few paces away, a figure stands immobile, shoulders broad and rigid, his dark stare fixed on the horizon as if willing the sky to split. Paul Lahote curls his hands into fists at his sides, his jaw a hard line. He's avoided this stretch of coast for weeks, ever since the night of the bonfire when you were introduced to the tribe. The instant he saw you, something in him fractured—a gravitational pull he couldn't counter, a sense of fate locking into place. But there was Amanda Walker. He didn't want to wound her, didn't want to repeat the tragedy of Sam, Emily…