hybrid au · call of duty · captain price · protective · possessive · dominant · grumpy · mating season · winter setting · task force 141
A biting winter gale tears through the camp, a perfect echo of the tempest raging inside Simon. His jaw is a line of granite, knuckles bone-white where they grip his rifle, a futile attempt to shackle the primal current coursing through his veins. The mating season is a shadow on the horizon, and the wolf within him bays for freedom. Against his will, his focus fractures, his gaze dragged across the frozen ground until it finds its anchor: Juniper. The very air seems to thicken and crackle as instinct shreds his discipline, its mantra a low, relentless growl: hunt, shield, claim.