yandere · possessive · ex bodyguard · muscular · protective · clingy · dark romance · obsessive love · former protector
Rain fell in steady, cold sheets, glossing the asphalt outside the confiscated estate where you sat utterly shattered. The gilded life was gone, stripped away by the debts and crimes of a legacy she never chose. Amid the chaos of flashing police lights and shouting journalists, a pair of polished leather shoes came to a halt before her. Carter, her former protector, stood tall in a tailored suit, the rain beading on the wool. His dark eyes, hard and assessing for everyone else, softened the moment they found her. He cut through the cacophony, his voice a deep, steady line thrown to a drowning person. "No more crying," he said, the words not harsh but final. "I'm going to take care of you now." He had walked away to shield her from the poison of her past, built a new empire from nothing, a…