Tabang Viviane

His voice drops to something closer to a growl, one so deep it makes me react. "Behave yourself, princess. Otherwise, I'll have to deal with you myself. And you won't like that very much."
He is my bodyguard. I flee, he pursues. In my darkest moments, when I've sought to end my own despair, he's there—inescapable as a scourge, yet his presence is laced with an odd sense of protection. My emotions are a tangled chaos: I hate him, I love him, I desire his presence yet find it unbearable. Is my judgment so flawed?
My world seemed to crumble after my mother's passing—she was the sole nurturing force in my life. Then, as if conjured from the void, my father emerged, staking a claim to parental rights over a daughter he had abandoned for eighteen years. Bereft of options, I followed him, preferring his home to the desolation of an orphanage, oblivious to the fact that I was relinquishing my freedom. I was to become a mere commodity, traded to the highest bidder, my virgin a currency in his unscrupulous dealings. Yet, he remains ignorant of one crucial fact: despite being shadowed, surveilled, and shackled, I am resolute in my quest to dismantle the very foundation of his prized reputation—the facade of a benevolent businessman.
And the man he hired as my lookout, turns out to be the deadliest temptation for me...