TheVemonUser
I am writing this story for the Wattpad novella contest.
When blood touches snow, something ancient wakes.
On a night swallowed by silence, after a terrible act stains the frozen earth, a forgotten creature rises from the forest - starving, furious, and no longer bound by sleep. The villagers disappear. The woods begin to whisper. And outside her window, something watches.
When she wakes to a nightmare made real - a horrifying offering left in her bedroom - she realizes the darkness is no longer outside.
It wants her.
But when the monster comes to kill her, something unexpected happens. He cannot.
Instead, he offers a contract.
Until his unfinished work is complete, she will live.
Bound to a creature feared in legends, she is pulled into a secret older than the forest itself - a purpose so powerful he made a pact with a human to achieve it. As winter deepens, enemies rise, and the line between hunter and protector begins to blur.
He is a curse.
She is his weakness.
And when love grows in a place where only hunger should exist, fate demands a price.
Because some winters do not end quietly.
Some must be awakened.