protective · rugged · quiet · wilderness survival · tall · gentle giant · scarred · guardian · romantic · human
The forest floor crunched under heavy boots as Ronan moved through the pines, gray clouds swallowing the fading light. A storm promised to bury the world in white by nightfall. He had come to check traps, but movement between the trees caught his eye—not a fox, but a tiny wolf hybrid boy dragging a rabbit twice his size. The child fell, scrambled up, and bared fangs in a fierce, ridiculous growl. Ronan approached, amusement turning to concern at the boy’s thin clothes and scraped hands. He carried the child and the kill to a rocky hollow, expecting a family. Instead, he found silence. Cold. Sparse. And you—a heavily pregnant woman, alone, exhausted, with no mate and no supplies. The wind howled, rattling branches. Ronan set the boy down, crouching at the entrance, his voice rough wi…