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Seducing my bodyguard 9

Author: Luna writes
last update publish date: 2026-08-26 02:56:55

The threat ended three days later.

The firm’s investigation traced the attacks to a rival investor who had lost a fortune when Ryan’s last acquisition closed. The man was arrested quietly, the remaining contractors scattered, and the official assessment declared the danger neutralized. Denver received the call while still in the clinic, shoulder heavily bandaged, arm in a sling. The director’s voice was brisk and final.

“Assignment complete, Kane. Once medical clears you for light duty, you’re
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  • Masked: Ruin Me, Daddy (MM Taboo collection)   The coach and I 5

    Noah BennettSaturday the gym was loud before tip-off.I saw the scout in the second row. Notebook. Neutral face. Cole did not look at him. Cole looked at us.In the huddle his voice was the same as it was in an empty gym at 8:30.“You know what to do. Do it.”I did it.I did not force the first open look. I hit the extra pass. I set my feet on the ones that were mine. At the half we were up nine. I had eight points and six assists and my jersey was already stuck to my back.Cole did not smile. He never smiled. When I came off for a minute he only said, “Stay in it,” and his fingers brushed the back of my arm like an accident.It was not an accident.Second half I wanted the ball more than I should have. I took one bad shot. He pulled me two possessions later. I sat. I watched. When he put me back in I passed first.We won by eleven.The locker room was noise and ice bags and somebody yelling about going out. I sat on the bench and untied my shoes slow. Cole stood in the doorway with

  • Masked: Ruin Me, Daddy (MM Taboo collection)   The Coach and I 4

    Noah BennettI got there at 8:27.The side door was unlocked. The main lights were off again. Only the one over the far basket. Cole stood by the rack with a ball in his hands like last night had not happened.It had happened. I felt it when I walked. A dull ache that made me think about his desk every time I took a step.“Film,” he said.“You texted the gym.”“I texted film.”I dropped my bag near the bleachers. “You also said it could not happen again.”He bounced the ball once. The sound carried in the empty court. “It cannot.”I walked onto the floor anyway.He did not tell me to leave.We started with tape. My own game from Friday paused on the wall. He pointed at a close-out I had beaten. Then at the extra pass I had made instead of forcing the shot.“That is the version of you I need on Saturday,” he said. “A scout will be here. You play like that, they will write your name down. You play like the first week, they will write nothing.”“I know how to play.”“You know how to scor

  • Masked: Ruin Me, Daddy (MM Taboo collection)   The coach and I 3

    Noah BennettWe won at home on Friday.I played the way he wanted. Set my feet. Did not force the highlight. Fifteen points and eight assists. The gym was loud when the buzzer went. The team wanted to go out. Somebody already had a house lined up.I said I was tired.I was not tired.The parking lot emptied. I sat in my car until the last headlights left. Then I walked back inside.His office light was still on.I knocked once and opened the door.Cole sat behind the desk with the same game tape paused on his laptop. He looked up like he had been waiting and like he wished he had not been.“You should be with your team,” he said.“I played the way you told me to play.”“That is not an answer.”I closed the door. The lock clicked louder than I meant it to.He watched my hand leave the knob.“Bennett.”“Noah.”He said my first name like it cost him something. “This is a bad idea.”“Then tell me to leave.”He did not tell me to leave.I walked around the desk. He stood. We were too close

  • Masked: Ruin Me, Daddy (MM Taboo collection)   The coach and I 2

    Noah BennettHe called me in the next night.Not in front of the team. A text after practice. Short. No greeting.Film. 8:30. Gym.I stared at the message longer than I should have. Then I went.The main lights were off. Only the side ones over the far basket were on. The rest of the court sat in shadow. Cole stood under the hoop with a remote in his hand and the projector throwing game tape on the wall.“You’re late,” he said.I looked at the clock. 8:29.He did not smile. I was starting to think he never did.I dropped my bag and sat on the bottom row of the bleachers. He did not sit. He stood with his arms crossed and let the tape run. My own missed pull-up from last season. Then another. Then the one where I forced a pass and it got stolen.“You see it?” he asked.“I see I missed.”“You see you rushed. You did not set your feet. You wanted the highlight more than the point.”I clenched my jaw. “You called me here to tell me what I already know?”“I called you here because you are

  • Masked: Ruin Me, Daddy (MM Taboo collection)   The coach and I

    Noah BennettThe new coach did not smile.That was the first thing I noticed. Not the clipboard. Not the whistle hanging from his neck. Just the way he stood at half court like the gym already belonged to him.Adrian Cole. Thirty-seven. Hired two weeks ago after Coach Harmon got pushed out. Nobody on the team had practiced under him yet. We only had the photos from the athletic site and the rumors. Former point guard. Torn ACL that ended him early. Came from a mid-major that actually won games.He looked taller in person. Broader in the shoulders. Dark hair cut short. Jaw that did not move much when he talked. His voice was low and clean. It did not need to get loud.“Bennett. You’re late.”I was not late. The clock on the wall said 5:58. Practice started at six.I dropped my bag anyway. “Traffic.”He looked at me like traffic was a word he did not respect.We ran.Not the usual warm-up. No easy laps. He put us in lines and made us sprint until two freshmen bent over and one of them t

  • Masked: Ruin Me, Daddy (MM Taboo collection)   Seducing my bodyguard 10

    Six weeks later the city looked the same, but nothing else did.Ryan’s penthouse no longer felt like a temporary fortress. The extra security cameras stayed, and a rotating team still handled external perimeter work, but the man who lived inside the space with him was no longer on anyone’s payroll for the privilege. Denver had taken a different contract with the firm—consulting, high-level threat assessment, remote enough that his days were his own. He still carried a weapon. He still checked locks out of habit. But when he walked through the front door at night it was because he chose to, not because a director had assigned him there.They had negotiated the terms in careful pieces.No more principal and bodyguard. No more power imbalance written into a contract. Denver kept his own place across the city for the first three weeks, testing the distance, making sure the want survived without forced proximity. It did. By the fourth week most of his clothes had migrated to Ryan’s closet,

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