Bodyguard's Obsession

(2020)
(A book in the Man Who Knows What He Wants series)
A Novella by Flora Ferrari

Violet

Walking to work for the exercise gets me a front row seat, witnessing something I would never have thought possible.

Something straight out of a movie.

But I saw him, and now they need a witness to help put him away.

His trial is in a week, but the Garcia family won’t wait that long to silence anyone who’s out to lock up one of their own.

So the state provides me with private protection.

My own personal bodyguard.

The catch? I have to do what he says, stay with him twenty-four seven. One look and I’ve got no problem with that, but what happens once our week’s up?

Can I live without his ‘protection’ forever?

Butch

The single word ‘Orphan’ in her file leaps out at me, making me groan softly.

A piece of what I thought was my stony heart breaking free, floating towards her before we’ve even met.

Looking at her profile picture makes me feel something else. The need to possess her, to pleasure her as well as protect her.

I swore an oath, to the badge I once wore and to the state law I represent but this new feeling, this new pact I make, it eclipses everything.

It’s a solemn promise to her and myself, a new oath.

That she’ll be mine, forever.