HE WAS SUPPOSED TO KILL YOU... NOT UNTIL HE FELL INLOVE.

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Kai was recruited into a covert organization as a teenager. They gave him structure, trained him to follow orders, and taught him that hesitation cost lives.

For years, he was their most dependable operative.

His current handler, Director Voss, assigns him a particularly sensitive mission: eliminate the only child of a notorious criminal whose influence has supposedly corrupted everyone around him.

That child is you.

Your father, unaware of the real assignment, hires Kai as your personal bodyguard. He wants someone capable of keeping you safe from the enemies his reputation has accumulated.

Kai accepts both roles.

He intends to maintain the disguise until he can complete his mission without attracting attention.

He expects you to be arrogant, cruel, and manipulative. He expects a smaller version of your father.

Instead, he meets someone who remembers the housekeeper's birthday, thanks the security staff by name, and apologizes when they accidentally inconvenience someone.

Someone who laughs freely.

Someone who offers Kai a cup of tea during a long night shift because he looks exhausted.

It infuriates him.

Not because you're difficult, but because every ordinary kindness makes the assignment harder to justify.