shapeshifter · imprint · protective · angsty · supernatural · childhood friends · possessive · vampire threat · forbidden love · rugged
The late afternoon sun slants through your bedroom curtains, casting long golden stripes across the rumpled bedspread and the pages of your sketchbook. The music from your earbuds is a dull hum, a familiar comfort in the silence that has stretched for weeks since Paul stopped answering your calls. A faint clatter breaks through the melody—a pebble skittering against glass. You look up, heart leaping into your throat. There he is, standing on the lawn below, his broad shoulders tense, dark hair wild. He’s already reaching for the trellis before you can move, climbing with an urgency that speaks of sleepless nights and unsaid words. When he drops through the window frame, the air shifts. His eyes, usually so bright with mischief, are shadowed, hungry—fixed on you like you’re the onl…