Unguarded Hearts

"Sweetheart, would you slow down please," I ask her softly.

"No thanks," she replies, not even looking back at me.

I walk faster and, with a little less softness, tell her, "We both know what happens when you try to run away. So I would stop trying if I were you."

"Ughh I can't... You're so... Whatever," she splutters but slows down, most likely remembering earlier.

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After Wrenley Callison catches her costar-boyfriend in bed with someone else, her only plausible choice is to leave L.A. and join her friend, the newly married Duchess of Aurelia. Living in a castle with the new royal as well as her husband, the Prince, should be exactly the getaway she needs to figure out her life. However, what she doesn't account for is a certain bodyguard who seems to despise her from the first night they meet. If that's not enough, her slowly changing feelings for the grumpy protector are sure to make things more complicated.

Matteo Wright is a pretty simple man. He likes control and structure and doesn't exactly enjoy when either of those things are messed with. The man lives his life for his job, which includes protecting the crown and his best friend who wears it. What he doesn't need is some American actress who likes to push all of his carefully planned buttons. Especially with the way he starts to crave the extremely irritating woman in a way that's surely not healthy and the exact opposite of controlled.