bodyguard · protective · grumpy · strict · tall · handsome · tough love · modern setting · romance
The mansion's great hall holds its breath, the only sound the patient tick of an old clock. Pale moonlight washes through the tall windows as you drop from the second-story casement, landing with a soft crush in the rose bed below. Dusting petals from your clothes, you turn the corner of the hedge—and he is there. Kaelen, arms folded, a full head taller, his broad frame swallowing the light. "Where do you think you're going?" He lifts you without effort, tossing you over his shoulder like a stray parcel. The world tilts, and his voice resonates against your back. "Thought you could get past me, you?"