Protectivelead Stories

"He rules in war... but what about the heart he left behind PROLOGUE Gunfire faded into silence. Captain Lucian Veyron Hale didn't. Standing in the middle of the battlefield, dressed in black, he looked less like a man and more like something built for war. The Black Panther Unit-the most brutal force in the country-moved only after him. "Move." One word. And everyone obeyed. Because Lucian Hale never repeated himself. He never hesitated. He never felt. --- Miles away, under bright surgical lights- "Scalpel." Dr. Elias Rowan Hayes stood at the center of the operating room, calm and precise. The country's No.1 senior heart surgeon. Where others saw risk, he saw rhythm. Where others panicked, he remained steady. A life rested in his hands- And he didn't fail. --- Two men. One who destroys without hesitation. One who saves without fear. Both shaped by choices they never made. Both bound to lives they never chose. And soon- Their worlds would collide. inspired by a taekook ff but I don't the name thanks to author

I hacked his empire to prove a point. He hired me to save it. Now we're fake-dating in front of his board, sharing a penthouse I can't afford to like, and pretending I don't notice the way he looks at me like I'm the most dangerous thing he's ever encountered. He's not wrong. Zara Voss doesn't do billionaires. She doesn't do suits, skyscrapers, or men who own things like private floors and people's futures. She does code which are clean, ruthless, untraceable. As a ghost-level freelance hacker, she's never left a fingerprint in her life. Until Rhys Southgate found one. The CEO of Southgate Technologies - arrogant, magnetic, and annoyingly hard to read - doesn't call the police when he discovers who breached his system. He makes her an offer she can't refuse: find the corporate mole leaking his company's data, or he exposes her to every client she's ever had. Fake smiles at galas. Late nights in his server room. A relationship built entirely on leverage. Except leverage doesn't explain why he remembers how she takes her coffee. It doesn't explain the way his jaw tightens when another man looks at her. And it definitely doesn't explain what he whispered when the cameras stopped rolling. Someone inside Southgate wants it burned to the ground. And the deeper Zara digs, the closer the mole gets to the one secret that could destroy her not personally. He hired her to find a traitor. She wasn't supposed to become the reason he had something worth protecting.

Ae Si is a young teenager. Colorblind since her car accident 4 years ago. People constantly made fun of her and when she had enough, hit someone. Now she's transferred to new classes, but still no one will leave her alone.

Miyeon was raised to kill. Emily was raised to survive. After their parents died, an assassin organization took them in and shaped Miyeon into a weapon, all while preparing her thirteen-year-old step-sister, Emily, to follow the same path. Miyeon obeyed every order for one reason only-to keep Emily alive. Then Miyeon met Kaito. A quiet Korean-Japanese boy with his own dangerous secret: the Mafia ran in his blood. What began as friendship turned into love, and for the first time, Miyeon imagined a future beyond violence. Until the order came. Kill Kaito-or lose everything. Pregnant, hunted, and betrayed by the very worlds that raised them, Miyeon, Kaito, and Emily are forced to run. With assassins, mafias, and the past closing in, survival isn't enough anymore. This time, Miyeon isn't running from death. She's running toward life.

Lara "Cipher" Reid is a freelance hacker with a moral compass who exposes corporate rot while leaving no digital footprint. But her latest hit, a breach of a supposedly "unhackable" private server, has placed her directly in the crosshairs of the city's most dangerous man.Kai Sterling, the cold and calculating architect of the Sterling Syndicate, treats the city like a chessboard where he is the undisputed king. Driven by a rare obsession to find the one person who outsmarted him, Kai draws Lara into a web of power and betrayal. As their worlds collide, they must decide if they are enemies, pawns, or the only two people capable of truly seeing one another behind the encryption. Zinc66©2026. All Rights Reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the author except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. Any infringement of copyright is *punishable by law*.

Carmen Raines thought she was safe. At twenty-two, she has her own apartment, her own life, and her past neatly locked away or so she believes. But when subtle signs begin to appear-objects moved, messages sent from unknown numbers-Carmen realizes someone has been watching her. Cole Hudson was never supposed to be part of her life again. Former enemies. Accidental lovers. A connection born from tension, not trust. But when danger creeps closer, Cole is the only one who believes her and the only one willing to stay. What Carmen and Cole don't know is that the past never let them go. Two exes. Two obsessions. One plan to erase them completely. As paranoia deepens and desire blurs into dependency, Carmen and Cole must decide whether their connection is strong enough to survive the people who refuse to let them live. Because obsession doesn't fade. It waits.