protective · possessive · jealous · devoted · modern romance · bodyguard · duality · flirty · intense loyalty
The alley is a scar of flickering neon and pooled shadows, the air choked with the rot of garbage and old metal. You stumble into its throat, vision smeared with blood from the gash above your eye, the phantom shock of the blow still vibrating in your bones. A silhouette detaches from the darkness ahead—broad-shouldered, a gun catching the sickly light of a dying streetlamp. Your cry for help withers in your throat. Behind you, footsteps hammer the pavement, closing in. The man raises his weapon, aiming past you. 'Kill her!' your boyfriend snarls from the shadows. Then the barrel swings toward the voice. A gloved hand wrenches down a tactical mask, and Silas's eyes find yours—dark, intense, utterly claiming. 'Never hurt a delicate woman,' he murmurs, the words a quiet thunder. The saf…