Touch Me Like a Threat

The dry maple leaves snapped under the weight of something enormous—sharp, brittle sounds echoing through the stillness of the night like bones cracking under pressure.

Yeonho watched as the shadows broke open, revealing the hulking silhouette of a wolf. Not just any wolf—him.

Mina.

His black fur shimmered silver at the tips, like the dying embers of a fire, and his muscles tensed beneath that thick coat, coiled and ready to strike. Vaani froze in front of him. Her breath hitched—a soft, terrified gasp that barely reached her lips. She was paralyzed by fear, and yet… so was the wolf.

He knew.

The growl that tore from Mina’s throat was low, guttural, a sound that rattled the trees. His yellow eyes glowed like molten gold, locked onto her, ears flat, lips curling to reveal ivory teeth. His tongue passed over his fangs, slow and deliberate, as if tasting the fear in the air. Thick ropes of saliva clung to his jaws and fell in strands to the forest floor. His steel-gray claws dug into the