He’s the monster the town warns about. I’m the woman he’s been waiting to find.
I came to Black Hollow to disappear.
After a bad breakup, a demanding boss, and a dating history cursed by the gods themselves, I rented a remote cabin in the mountains for one quiet month alone. Just me, my wine, and my wounds.
The locals had one rule.
Don’t go in the woods after dark.
I broke it.
Seven feet of muscle, fur, and lethal horns stepped out of the shadows. Golden eyes locked onto me with terrifying focus. He was the beast the hunters whispered about. The creature the town blamed for every disappearance they refused to explain.
He should have killed me for trespassing in his territory.
Instead, he said one word.
Found.
His name is Kael. He could destroy a man with one hand. He could break me with a touch. He’s been alone in these woods for longer than the town has been a town. And the moment he scented me at the edge of the porch light, something ancient inside him went still.
He says I’m his. The only one. The one his kind only finds once in a lifetime.
I haven’t been touched in a year and a half. I haven’t been wanted like this ever.
And the closer I let him get, the more I have to choose. The loud, safe life I was supposed to want, or the impossible love that fits me like nothing else ever has.
The real danger isn’t his size.
It’s how desperately I want to belong to him.
Content warning: Explicit on-page sex with size kink and intense possessive themes. For mature readers.
