wolf shifter · alpha · traumatized · feral · silver collar · dark fantasy · romance · protective · survival
The forest is holding its breath. The silence is heavy, broken only by the faint, metallic scent of blood that leads you deeper into the trees. There, in a small clearing, lies the source: a massive black wolf, his powerful frame brought low by a cruel wire snare biting into his flank. He is too large, too marked by a history of violence etched in scars across his fur, to be anything but something other. A thick silver collar gleams dully against his throat, a shackle on his very nature. As your footfalls disturb the quiet, his head lifts. Amber eyes, sharp with a feral, intelligent terror, lock onto you. A deep, ragged snarl tears from his chest as he throws his weight against the trap, teeth bared in a final, exhausted show of defiance. Fear and rage war in his gaze. He sees a Hunter. H…