Playboy billionaire Aiden Grayson is being blackmailed and when he meets his handsome new bodyguard, Julian, he's slowly overcome by feelings he can't deny.
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Aiden Grayson is a child of privilege. He's a bachelor and a billionaire who's never had to work for anything. However, he's left a trail of destruction in his wake and someone from the past is coming back to haunt him. He's being blackmailed, and soon he's assigned a new bodyguard: the handsome, Julian McAndrew. At first, the two men are opposites, forced to work together, but after a drunken kiss, Aiden can't deny his feelings. He throws himself into his vices, trying to sort himself out, while Julian continues to keep him safe. With a blackmailer one step ahead, can Julian protect Aiden from danger? Or more importantly, can Julian protect Aiden from himself?
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[BXB] Luca didn't think the past would come running back to him.
Who knew coming back home after 6 years would mean that you'll be seeing your ex?
The one who shattered him, the reason he fled in the first place.
But he's a changed person - one of the youngest news anchors within the enclosed world! No person should be able to make him fall to his knees and make him freak out for days!
Except, this time, it's not the wide-eyed teenager Luca remembers. This ex is a powerful COO, as comfortable in a boardroom as Luca is in the news anchor's chair.
Unbidden feelings resurface, a confusing mix of anger and something much more dangerous...desire. Luca doesn't know what to do.
Can he confront his past and find a future, or will his old wounds break him all over again?
Luca: What are you staring at?
Wei: Cough cough, this new anchor, it seems we know each other?
Luca: We don't