Second Skin- Sam Uley X OC
some flames never meant to be lit still burn the longest.
Rowan Carter isn't looking for forever. A nursing student from Seattle, she's just trying to survive her last semester of clinicals, pay rent on time, and avoid the kind of heartache she's seen hollow out the women in her family. Volunteering at the La Push community clinic was supposed to be simple-until a bonfire on the beach, two beers too many, and a beautiful boy named Sam Uley shifted something she didn't mean to feel.
It was supposed to be casual. Uncomplicated. Quiet.
Except Sam is already in a long-term relationship. One he never mentions.
And two months later, Sam disappears-only to return changed, colder, sharper, eyes burning like something wild. When he sees her again, something in him snaps. Imprint. That's what they call it. Destiny, bonded souls, all that mythic, suffocating magic.
But Rowan doesn't want fate. She wants the truth.
Now caught between a love she didn't ask for, a betrayal she didn't cause, and a secret world she was never meant to see, Rowan has to decide: walk away, or burn in it.
Tension-heavy. Elemental. Dangerous. A story about guilt, grief, and the slow, painful way we choose one another.
This is not the imprint story you've read before.
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