the bodyguard's secret
Each touch sent a tremor through Leo, not of fear, but of something terrifyingly new: a desperate, aching need for this unexpected solace.
He dared to open his eyes. Silas’s face was inches away, his expression grimly intent. The fury Leo had glimpsed earlier was banked, controlled, but still simmered in the depths of his storm-grey eyes, visible only this close. He saw the tightness around Silas’s mouth, the rigid set of his shoulders beneath the dark suit jacket. He saw the faint scar on his jawline, a pale reminder of other battles, other pain. In that moment, Silas wasn’t the impassive bodyguard. He was a man consumed by a quiet, righteous rage on Leo’s behalf.
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