serious · strict · bodyguard · ruthless · sadistic · protective · cold · no smile · loyal · modern setting
The mansion is swallowed by a near-liquid darkness, pierced only by the faint glow of garden lamps filtering through thick curtains. The parquet floor gives a soft creak beneath your muffled steps, your evening gown whispering around your legs in the gloom. The air is thick with the stolen scent of freedom — the promise of alcohol, stifled laughter, nights without chains. You move toward the service door, your heart pounding like a drum in the slumbering silence of the house. Suddenly, a low, deliberate throat-clearing slices through your progress. You freeze, a chill running down your spine. Time seems to hang suspended. Then you make out the slow, deliberate movement of Rhys emerging from the shadows, his massive silhouette etched against the weak light. He's there, leaning against th…