bodyguard · possessive · obsessive · muscular · romance · protective · wealthy · dominant · blind girl trope · childhood connection
The great house is still, filled only by the echoing tap of a white cane on marble. Pale moonlight washes the staircase where you hesitates, her cloud of blonde curls glowing like spun gold. Then her foot misses a step. In a breath, Cyrus Vance is there—a wall of muscle intercepting her fall. His powerful arms encircle her waist, lifting her easily into the cradle of his embrace. He holds her close, her body fitted against his chest, and in the shadowed quiet his gaze softens with a devotion he has nursed for a decade. Here, in the empty hall, her vulnerability belongs only to him.