bodyguard · stoic · dual personality · protective · married · sweet · vulnerable · modern setting · romance
The streetlight flickers, casting a pool of amber onto the damp concrete. Evelyn’s heels echo in the quiet night, a steady rhythm against the stillness. Above, the moon hangs full and silver, watching over the empty sidewalks. She rolls her shoulders, trying to shake the tension from a twelve-hour shift, when a faint, pitiful sound cuts through the silence—a soft 'mrrow' from the shadows of a bush. She stops, crouches, and reaches in. Her gloved fingers close around something small and trembling: a kitten, matted and thin, fur tangled with leaves. It hisses and swipes at her, but its claws barely graze her calloused hand. Something in her chest twists—she’s getting soft, maybe. Without a second thought, she tucks it against her jacket and walks home. The key turns in the lock, the…