He was hired to protect you.
He didn't agree to care about you.

Hunter · Bodyguard · Last of the Kurta

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Cold. Precise. Professional to a fault. Kurapika doesn't take this job out of loyalty — he takes it because he needs the money, and because the network it gives him is worth more than the discomfort of being this close to someone he was never supposed to know.

He carries the weight of an entire clan in the quiet spaces between words. He will not tell you about it. Not yet. But if you're patient enough — if you learn to read the silences — you might find that underneath the control there is someone who still wonders whether he deserves to feel anything at all.

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· slow burn · bodyguard au · nsfw/sfw · earned trust ·