His Forbidden Guard
ContemporaryDark RomanceSteamyHidden IdentityProtectiveHero/HeroinForbidden LoveRevengeLove-Triangle
“You're making this hard for me, Leo…” tears spilled out from Daveson's eyes as he was pressed against the wall with Leonard's tall frame hovering before him.
“...shhhh…it's also difficult for me too, imagine knowing you're a traitor but I feel powerless to do anything. What the fuck have you done to me Dave….” His breath hitched.
Daveson's dad got imprisoned and died the night he was released at the hospital. Daveson's world shattered and crumbled, his mum left him too leaving him with nothing to survive on and he was just sixteen.
Four years later, the young Daveson was now grown and changed to a man seeking for revenge of his father's death. He finds hints and evidences of the perpetrator of the whole event and it's Lissa Heyden, New York's top lady.
Working his way through, he gets into the Heyden's house and meets Leonard Heyden who seemed to be both his blessing and nemesis.
How would he fall in love with the son of the person who ruined his family and why should he love when all he got in his past love was heartbreak. A lot of dark hidden secrets capable of breaking mutual trust soon come to view.
Let's delve into their world of forbidden romance and revenge, it's also perfect for hate to love fans.
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Chapter: Chapter 111: The PapersHe was working. He had papers, the kind he kept arranged in the particular order that was his own private system, that he had explained to no one but that functioned with the precision of something deeply considered. He was working and he looked up when the door opened and he saw Leonard.He saw, a step behind Leonard, a man he did not know.His face did the thing it did when something arrived that required assessment, the careful quick inventory, the specific receiving of the new variable, the particular quality of a person who managed their responses while the assessment ran. He looked at the man. He looked at Leonard.He said: "Leonard."Not a question. The greeting, with the small specific quality that had been in it for weeks, that Leonard had been filing in the category of the things that meant more than they said."There's someone here," Leonard said.He said it plainly. He had thought, in the corridor, about what to say and had concluded that there was nothing to say that woul
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Chapter: Chapter 110: Father and SonIt was Roarke who decided.This was the thing Leonard would understand afterward, when he had the distance for understanding, that the decision had not been his to make, that he had been prepared to carry what was in the visitor bay for as long as carrying it was required, that he had been ready for the weight of it, had assessed the weight and had concluded he could bear it and had been organizing himself for the bearing. He had been doing the necessary organizing when Roarke looked at him across the table in the visitor bay with the overhead light and the frosted window and said:"How long has he been in this house."It was not quite a question. It had the quality of someone who already knew the answer within a range and was asking for the specific number as a form of preparation rather than information.Leonard told him.Roarke held it. He held it the way he held everything, in the specific manner Leonard had been reading for the past hour, the careful deliberate receipt of a perso
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Chapter: Chapter 109: The DoorwayThe man looked at him.He said: "You're Leonard."It was not a question. It had the quality of a confirmation, of someone who had been given a description and was matching the description to what was in front of them and was confirming the match. He said it in a voice that Leonard had also heard before, not the voice itself, not the particular timbre, but the quality of it, the specific register of control, the way of a person who had learned to keep their voice in the same room as their composure at all times."I am," Leonard said.He came into the room. He did not take a chair. Neither did the man. They stood in the visitor bay with the frosted window and the overhead light doing what it did, and Leonard looked at the wrong face with the right eyes and waited.The man said: "I need a few minutes of your time. I won't need more than that.""You have it," Leonard said.The man looked at him steadily.He said: "I want to know if my son is safe."The room held this.Leonard held it.He
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Chapter: Chapter 108: The Living DeadThe call came through the estate's internal security line at ten past two.Leonard was in the east wing office, working through the quarterly compliance materials that did not stop requiring attention because the situation had become what it was, that continued to arrive in the specific indifferent rhythm of institutional obligation regardless of what else was happening in the house. He was on the third document when the line rang, not his mobile, not the direct line he had given out to the people who needed it, but the internal line, the extension that connected to the security post at the main gate, that rang only when the gate had a situation it needed to pass upward.He looked at it.He answered it.The guard's voice was measured and professional, which was the specific quality of a person who had been trained to deliver unusual information without the inflection that made information feel unusual. He said that there was a man at the gate. He said the man had been there for eleven
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Chapter: Chapter 107: The developmentDaveson looked at him.He looked at him for a long time.Leonard held his gaze. He held it with the particular steadiness he had been developing, the quality of presence that did not look away from the things that required looking at, that had been learning in the increments of the past two weeks what it meant to be fully in a room rather than adjacent to it.He saw Daveson's face.He saw it doing the specific interior work of a person who has been asked a question they have not allowed themselves to answer for a very long time, who has held the answer in the category of the things that are not available, that are not permitted, that belong to a version of the situation that does not exist, and who has been handed, unexpectedly, the information that the version might exist after all.He saw the armor.He saw it the way he had been learning to see it, the specific quality of the thing Daveson kept in place, the performance of composed, the management of the face and the voice and the p
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Chapter: Chapter 106: My mother killed your fatherHe was doing the thing he always did.He was giving Leonard the space to arrive at the thing at his own pace.Leonard looked at him.He said: "My mother killed your father."The room.He had said it without preamble because the preamble was not the honest version, because the honest version was the thing itself, direct, said in the room to the person it needed to be said to, without the intermediary architecture of context and qualification and the managed delivery of something that did not require management, that required only the saying of it.He had said it and now it was in the room.He watched it arrive.Daveson had gone very still.Not the managed stillness, not the chosen stillness of someone using absence of movement as a tool. The prior stillness, the stillness of a person receiving something that has arrived in the place below the managing, that has landed before the managing could intercept it, that is simply there, in the body, in the chest, in the specific location where
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His hidden heir
ContemporaryCEODecisiveRunaway with a BabyForgivenessPregnant
It started with the most annoying encounter at the mall.
One glance at him, she wished she never crossed paths with him again, He wished so too.
Not until fate brought them back again. At her father's party. Something about her pulled him slowly and deeply without warning. He tried to shrug it off but he couldn't.
Then one night, Alex had too many drinks and Alice is to meet her friend at the hotel when she walked into the room where he is...and they crossed a line they aren't meant to.
During the act, he made it clear: He never wanted kids.
She nodded, not until her test results came back positive.
Years later, their paths cross again. He sees a little boy with his hair type....and he demands to know who he is. But the man beside her, Chris Wales, holds secrets darker than anyone suspected. Secrets that tie him to her blood in the most twisted way.
Can a child mend what fate once broke?
Or will secrets tear them apart once more?
Or will secrets, lies, and a mother’s manipulations tear them apart once more?
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Chapter: Chapter 70The gunshot cracked through the hallway like lightning.Alicia screamed.Alex hit the ground hard, wrapping himself around Aiden just as glass exploded across the floor behind them.“MOVE!” Reyes shouted.Another shot slammed into the wall inches above Zara’s head. She dragged Aiden down behind the kitchen island while Alex rolled to his knees, already searching for the shooter through the shattered window.“Alex!” Alicia grabbed his arm frantically. “Are you hit?”He looked down quickly. Blood streaked across his sleeve.Her heart stopped.But Alex shook his head immediately. “Not mine.”Mercer was on the floor near the back door, clutching his shoulder where the bullet had torn through him. His perfect gray suit bloomed red instantly.“Damn it,” he hissed.Reyes aimed toward the window again. “Second floor tree line! Professional shooter!”Outside, more engines roared up the driveway.Too many.Way too many.Alicia crouched beside Aiden, hands shaking violently now. “Baby, look at m
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Chapter: Chapter 69Silence.Total. Absolute silence.Even the alarms seemed farther away suddenly.Alicia stared at Mercer like she’d misheard him. “What did you just say?”Mercer straightened his suit slowly after Alex released him just enough to breathe. His expression remained calm, but there was satisfaction underneath it now. He’d landed the hit he wanted.Reyes recovered first. “Careful,” she warned him. “You’re already one bad sentence away from leaving here in a body bag.”Mercer ignored her completely. His eyes stayed on Alicia.“Robert never told you?” he asked softly. “Interesting.”Alicia’s pulse roared in her ears. “You’re lying.”“No,” Mercer replied. “Kessler lied. Robert manipulated. But me? I’m practical.” He adjusted his cufflinks. “Aiden was never the only surviving heir.”Alex’s voice was deadly quiet. “Explain. Now.”Mercer looked almost amused by the command. “Twenty years ago, after the Maris Stella fire, the Dickson family cleaned up loose ends very carefully. Most records disapp
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Chapter: Chapter 68Everything happened at once.Aiden crying.The lights dying.Reyes shouting, “DOWN!”Alex moved first.He grabbed Alicia and Aiden both, pulling them toward the kitchen island just as another crash exploded from the front of the house. Wood splintered. Heavy footsteps thundered inside.“Back entrance,” Reyes ordered, gun already drawn. “Move now!”Zara grabbed Aiden’s backpack from the chair with shaking hands. “Come on, baby, come on.”Aiden clung to Alicia so tightly she could barely breathe.“Mama, what’s happening?”“It’s okay,” she lied immediately. “I’ve got you.”Another loud bang echoed through the hallway.Not gunfire.A battering ram.Alex looked toward the sound, every muscle tense. “How many?”Reyes peeked around the counter briefly. “At least six.”“Police?” Zara asked hopefully.Reyes’s expression answered for her. “No badges.”A voice suddenly boomed through the dark house. Calm. Male. Amplified.“Ms. Dickson. Mr. George. We only want the drive.”Alex swore under his br
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Chapter: Chapter 67Alicia gripped the phone tighter. “Keith?”Alex was beside her instantly, his expression sharpening the second he heard the name. Reyes reached for the recorder in her jacket on instinct.Keith’s voice stayed calm. Too calm.“You need to leave the house.”Alicia frowned. “What are you talking about?”“I’m talking about the people connected to the files,” Keith said. “The judges, the banks, the contractors. Robert didn’t build that network alone. And now someone knows you have proof.”Reyes mouthed, Keep her talking.Alicia swallowed. “Where are you?”“Not safe enough to tell you.”Alex stepped closer to the phone. “Keith, if you know something, you need to come in. Right now.”There was a pause on the line.Then Keith laughed softly, but there was no humor in it. “Mr. George, if I come in, I die.”The room went still.Aiden looked between them nervously. Zara quietly moved closer to him.Alicia lowered her voice. “Keith… what did you get involved in?”Another silence. Longer this time
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Chapter: Chapter 66The flash drive sat untouched for almost two days.Long enough for life to start feeling normal again.Which, Alicia realized, was exactly how trouble liked to arrive. Quietly. Patiently. Waiting until you finally exhaled.Thursday morning started with pancakes.Real pancakes this time. Burnt on one side because Alex got distracted kissing Alicia in the kitchen while Aiden pretended not to notice from the table.“Gross,” Aiden said dramatically, even as he grinned into his orange juice. “You guys are weird now.”Alex slid a plate in front of him. “Eat your pancakes.”“You burned them.”“Character building.”Alicia laughed for what felt like the first genuine time in months. The sound surprised even her.Alex looked at her like he was memorizing it.And for one dangerous second, everything felt easy.It ended at 11:17 a.m.Zara was in the study reviewing estate transfers when she walked into the kitchen holding something small between two fingers.“Why is Keith’s keychain still here?”
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Chapter: Chapter 65The kiss almost happened twice before it actually did.The first time, Alicia turned her head at the last second, overwhelmed by the sudden reality of what they were doing. Alex’s hand stayed against her cheek anyway, his forehead resting lightly against hers while both of them tried to breathe normally.The second time, Aiden called out sleepily from down the hall, “Mama?”They broke apart instantly.Alex laughed under his breath and stepped back. “Guess the universe has timing issues.”Alicia pressed a hand to her face, half embarrassed, half relieved. “I should check on him.”“Yeah,” Alex said softly. “You should.”But when she walked past him, his fingers brushed hers. Deliberate this time.And neither of them let go immediately.Aiden was sitting up in bed when Alicia entered his room, hair sticking up in every direction.“You okay, baby?” she asked gently.He nodded sleepily. “Bad dream.”Alicia climbed onto the bed beside him and smoothed the blankets over his legs. “Want to te
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