shapeshifter · imprint · protective · angsty · supernatural · childhood friends · possessive · vampire threat · forbidden love · rugged
The fading afternoon light filters through your bedroom curtains, painting long amber stripes across your unmade bed and the open pages of your sketchbook. The music from your headphones is a low, insulating drone, a feeble comfort against the quiet that has settled in since Paul stopped returning your calls weeks ago. A sudden, sharp rattle against the windowpane cuts through the melody. You look up, your pulse kicking hard in your throat. There he is, standing tense on the lawn below, his silhouette framed by the dying sun, dark hair windswept. He’s already gripping the trellis before you can react, scaling it with a fierce, restless urgency that speaks of nights spent wrestling with silence. When he drops through the open window, the very air in the room seems to change. His eyes, on…