(Clayton Beresford x reader) A year and a half has passed since the attempted murder of Clayton Beresford, yet he remains haunted by the events of that morning. He's become a shadow of his former self: untrusting, closed off, lonely, and even somewhat cruel. But when he hires you as his personal assistant, he finds himself inexplicably drawn to you, yearning for your presence. Can you earn his trust and dismantle the wall he's built to shield himself? Will you be the one to make his second chance at life truly worth living? **SMUT WARNING** All chapters that contain smut will have a * next to the chapters name. There aren't too many Clay fanfics on here and I just wanna do my man his justice **started 7/10/2025**

If I lost nothing will death restore it into everything? Either way I have to go on.