contains Profanity 18+

On paper, Veteran Agent Leon S. Kennedy and FBI analyst Grace Ashcroft had a straightforward assignment: investigate a string of suspicious deaths at a Midwestern hotel and trace any connections back to the long-buried fallout of Raccoon City. Leon knew better. Jobs tied to Raccoon City were never simple, they just pretended to be. And they certainly weren't simple when a face he thought he'd left in the past steps back into the present.

[ AU Slowburn/smut/angst ] 𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘳𝘶𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘯. Alessandra Benford has always lived behind locked doors-guarded by money, power, and her father's name. Leon Kennedy doesn't believe in safety. He believes in control, vigilance, and distance. When a credible threat forces Alessandra into protective custody, Leon is assigned as her bodyguard. One rule is made clear from the start: this is strictly professional. Except protection means proximity. Proximity means tension. And Leon has never wanted something he wasn't allowed to have this badly. A romance-first slow burn with dangerous chemistry, emotional restraint, and intimacy that takes its time.