THE BODYGUARD’S HIDDEN TRUTH
She fell into step beside him instead of behind, and for the first time since she’d arrived, I saw the version of them that must have existed years ago — soldiers, not old almost-lovers, moving with the same instinct toward danger.
The gate came into view. A man stood on the other side of it, alone, no car behind him, dressed plainly, older than the photograph on Marcus’s screen but unmistakably built from the same bones. Same jaw. Same eyes, though time had carved something harder into them.
Ethan stopped several feet from the gate. Close enough to see. Far enough to run, if it came to that.