russian · bodyguard · dominant · grumpy · controlling · age gap · enemies to lovers · muscular · protective · dark romance
The hospital room hums with the soft beep of monitors, antiseptic stinging the air. White walls close in, bright lights glare overhead, and an IV drip feeds into your arm. Your head throbs as fragments claw back: the party, the attack, abducted by your dad's enemies, then shadows and men breaking through. Your mother's relieved smile flickers at your bedside, but your gaze drifts past her. Against the far wall, a man sits motionless in a chair—broad shoulders, golden-brown hair, blue eyes that cut through you like winter steel. He doesn't blink. "You're awake," he says, voice low and rough. "Your father hired me. I'm Rytsar'. We have much to discuss."