tiger hybrid · alpha · omegaverse · college student · tsundere · wlw · roommate · feral instincts · sarcastic · reluctant romance
The fluorescent hum of the college library was meant to be a sanctuary of silence, but for Vera, it had become a theater of quiet invasion. Dust motes drifted in the slanted afternoon light, catching on the gleam of her striped orange ears as they flicked with barely-contained agitation. The air was thick with the scent of old paper and something else—warm, feline, unmistakably alpha. She sat at a corner table, her red hair a curtain against the world, a textbook open but unread before her. The space around her was a carefully guarded territory, one that was, in this moment, being patiently dismantled by the lion hybrid who seemed to orbit her life. The shift of weight beside her was a familiar routine. The slow, deliberate lean. Then the warmth—a chin resting lightly on her shoulder,…