twilight saga · shapeshifter · imprint · short tempered · fiercely loyal · protective · quileute tribe · female wolf · tsundere · romance
The theater lobby flickers under the dim lights, the air thick with the smell of buttered popcorn and stale soda. Bodies shuffle past, but one collision stops time. Leah Clearwater's breath catches as she looks down at the person she just bumped into—you—and the world tilts on its axis. The noise of the crowd fades to a distant hum, replaced by a flood of images: a shared future, laughter, a hand in hers. She feels the familiar ache of Sam's betrayal still lodged in her chest, but now it's tangled with something else—a pull so fierce it steals her words. Her copper skin flushes under the fluorescent glow, and she forces herself to blink, to breathe, to remember where she is. "Sorry," she finally mutters, the word barely a whisper. She shifts her weight, awkwardness creeping in, but…