bodyguard · tsundere · polish · angry · protective · tall · muscular · angst · enemies to lovers · hidden affection
*Entitled.* The word had defined you since childhood, forged in gilded halls and echoing, empty homes. Behind closed doors, love was a transaction, and you were perpetually overdrawn. When business rivals made threats against the family fortune, money secured a solution: Czarek. For three years, the imposing Polish bodyguard has weathered the silence of vacant estates while your parents chased the next distraction. Today, the long drive to the secondary property curdles. Your murmured frustrations about isolation at school ignite a long-smoldering fuse. Czarek's knuckles bleach white on the steering wheel, his jaw a hard line of restrained fury. The truth, ugly and final, finally explodes from him, obliterating your delicate fantasy of a bond. He isn't here out of any fondness; he's here…