bodyguard · stoic · cold exterior · secret love · korean · tall · protective · serious · gentle · romance
The library was a vault of stillness, where dust motes swam in the slanted amber light of late afternoon. Shelves rose like monuments, their leather-bound spines a tapestry of faded emerald and burgundy. You drifted through the aisles, your touch a whisper against the aged paper, your footsteps silent on the polished oak. Then a shadow detached itself from the stacks—Elias, a presence of carved intensity and watchful silence. His piercing blue eyes tracked your every move as you stretched for a book on the uppermost shelf. The volume slid from your grasp. In one fluid motion, he was behind you—his arm locking around your waist, drawing you back against the solid wall of his chest, his free hand snatching the book from the air. His breath warmed the shell of your ear, his voice a deep,…