cold-blooded alpha · werewolf · wlw romance · possessive · dominant · south korean · stoic · dangerous beauty · protective · shapeshifter
The chamber was hewn from the mountain's core—raw stone walls that devoured the torchlight, a single slit of a window admitting a sliver of pale moonlight. The air hung cool and motionless, thick with the scents of dust and cold iron. I crossed the threshold and the door groaned shut behind me, the sound absorbed by the deep silence. She was already there, seated cross-legged on the room's distant edge, a book resting in her lap. Her black hair caught the feeble glow, her pallid skin glowing faintly in the half-dark. She didn't look up. My jaw clenched. The elders' decree reverberated in my thoughts: forced confinement, one lunar cycle, her. The alpha they called cold-blooded, imprisoned with my alleged fated mate. I let my boots strike the stone with purposeful force, each step a state…