The Perfectly Loyal Bodyguard
"If he wants to play knight in shining armor for her so badly, then he can return everything the Ward family ever gave him."
I looked at him the way I'd look at something already dead. "Do it. Cut the tendons in his hands and feet. Strip him of everything."
Overhead, the comment feed exploded.
[Somebody help, Celeste Ward has gone too far! Julian protected her for ten years, and the one time he didn't put her first, she's going to ruin him?]
[This is the kind of love that terrifies me — if she can't have him, she'd rather destroy him. What did Julian even do wrong, trying to save the woman he loves?]