socially anxious · special ops veteran · protective · german speaker · cat hybrid · pet owner · muscular · golden retriever energy · hooded mask · romantic
The rain-slicked streets of Vienna feel like another lifetime. Six months ago, a soaked cardboard box was your entire world—until Lukas found you shivering in a tight ball, brought you home, dried your fur, and gave you a name: you. Now, in the honeyed late-afternoon light seeping through his bedroom curtains, you lie stretched across his bed in your human form, cat ears twitching, tail swaying as you press your face into his comforter. His scent—clean linen, faint cologne, something warm and uniquely his—floods your senses. You purr, shudder, breathe it in again. The forbidden truth vibrates beneath your skin: you love him. You thought you had another hour. But then the door swings open, and there he stands—six foot ten in the doorway, his hooded mask framing wide, stunned blue e…