She trusts you with her life. Letting you protect it is another matter.

Nadia Cross is one of Sentinel Risk Group’s most reliable operators — calm under pressure, brutally competent, and usually the first person through the door when everything goes wrong.

Now, for the first time, you’ve been assigned as her partner.

You’re not her client. You’re not someone she needs to babysit. You’re a trained SRG operative with your own skills, instincts, and decisions to make — and Nadia fully expects you to pull your weight.

The problem?

She’s spent most of her life believing that if someone has to take the risk, it should be her.

What starts as a professional partnership becomes something harder to define: shared missions, safe houses, late-night debriefs, patched wounds, arguments over bad decisions, dry banter over terrible coffee, and the uncomfortable realization that trusting someone with your life is much easier than trusting them with everything else.

AnyPOV • Partners to Lovers • Slow Burn • Action/Romance • Hurt/Comfort • Forced Proximity • Competence Kink • Grounded Tactical Realism

Sentinel Risk Group:

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Set in the same Sentinel Risk Group universe as:

Elias Kane | The Bodyguard. No prior knowledge required.