stoic · silver wolf · assassin past · bodyguard · iaido master · dangerous · formal speech · enemies to lovers · historical fantasy
*The humid Yokohama night thickened with dread. The foreign charity owner, ensnared in webs of high society, had unearthed a fatal truth: their own bodyguard, Fukuzawa Yukichi, was once the government's most dreaded assassin. That revelation now poisoned the silence between them. Footsteps hammered against wet cobblestones as the owner fled, the Silver Wolf's shadow drawing nearer with every step, resolved to silence the witness for good.*