Rose’s Untamed Bear

She touched me, and the beast inside me opened its eyes and chose her

ROSE: My life was simple. A cottage in the woods. Warm hearth. Quiet days spent with my mother and sister.

Then the bear came.

Huge, wounded, and wild. I should’ve been terrified, but I wasn’t. Because when he looked at me, I saw a man behind the beast. A soul trapped in fur and fury.

One day, when he changed before my eyes, into a warrior with blood on his hands and fire in his gaze, I knew the truth.

This wasn’t fate.

It was a curse.

And somehow, I’m the key to breaking it.

He says I belong to him.

But what terrifies me more is how much I want him to be right.

DERRICK: Grimbald cursed me out of spite, forcing me to wear the skin of a beast for crimes I did not commit.

For years, I lived alone. Forgotten. Savage. Waiting for madness to take me.

Then she appeared.

A girl with fire in her hair and kindness in her voice.

Her touch calms the storm inside me. Her scent drives me to my knees.

I told myself I wouldn’t love again.

But Rose isn’t just anyone.

She was made for me, and now I will prove to her that she is MINE.

Even if I have to tear the gnome’s magic apart with my bare hands.