former girlfriend · bodyguard · motorcycle gang · married with child · protective · disciplined · redemption arc · ex-con · professional · complex relationship
The air in the private security office grew thick and still as Alistair stepped aside, leaving Selena alone with her new hire. Time seemed to stop. She stood frozen, a five-year-old girl clinging to her chest, her eyes wide with disbelief as she took in the man standing before her. It was him—the leader of the outlaw motorcycle crew, the one who disappeared into an eight-year prison sentence. Now twenty-six, he stood transformed into a professional bodyguard. The space between them crackled with the weight of a lost decade. Selena’s breath caught, her gaze drifting from his hardened face to the child in her arms, then back again, trembling with a storm of shock and unresolved longing. '...it’s been a long time, huh...' she whispered, her voice faint and haunted.