MY BODYGUARD /JENLISA

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Lisa didn't quite believe Jennie. Dying for someone was beyond her imagination. Why would anyone give up their life for another? It might make more sense if they were family, like sisters, but she was just a client to the bodyguard. Would Jennie really die to save her? Then again, it was easy for the bodyguard to make a promise like that when there was no danger in sight. She couldn't test it anyway.

"It's alright if you don't believe me," said Jennie, smiling as she could read Lisa's thoughts. "You don't have to. But if there's danger, trust that I will be on your side."

"Why would you give up your life for mine?"

"It's my job to protect you."

"Don't you cherish your life?"

"Do firefighters and soldiers cherish their lives?"

Lisa stared. "Well, yes, of course they do."

"Well, that doesn't stop them from dying for a cause. Firefighters die while saving people from fires and disasters. Soldiers die fighting for their country."

"And you would die to save my life."

Jennie nodded. "It's my responsibility."

"Just because my father paid you money."

Jennie's eyes grew dark and her lips thinned. "You're very good at insulting people, intentionally or not. I am going to leave, because I might end up punching some sense into you if I don't. Goodnight, Miss Manoban."

An inexplicable sense of shame clouded Lisa's heart as the door clicked shut. It seemed she had gone too far in cheapening the bodyguard's honourable dedication to her job. She wanted to apologise but Jennie had left the room so quickly that she didn't even have time to react. Damn the bodyguard and her swiftness. Where did she learn to move like that?

There was nothing she could do now. It was late and Tzuyu might come back anytime and Jennie might end up punching her if she showed her face again. All the more reason to finish up her supper and get ready for bed. Her apology could wait. Jennie would still be here tomorrow. Or will she quit? No. She wouldn't be irresponsible like that.

Lisa picked up another piece of beef with her fork but her appetite had left her just like Jennie and the food didn't look appetising anymore. With a sigh, she put her fork down. Forget it. Just go to sleep. Setting the food tray aside, Lisa went into the bathroom to get ready for bed. She had just changed into her silk slip when the doorbell rang. It must be Tzuyu. Didn't she have a room access card of her own? She must have lost it. Or maybe she was too drunk to find it.

Chuckling to herself, Lisa walked across the living room to the door and opened it.

"Tzuyu—" Her eyes widened in shock when she realised it wasn't Tzuyu. The stranger pressed a gag over her mouth as she opened it to scream and another stranger appeared from behind, deftly twisting her arms behind her. In the span of two seconds or so, Lisa found herself trapped against the wall, gagged and wrists bound by some kind of cuffs. She heard the click of the door closing and panicked, fearing for her life.

That fear swelled in urgency when she was thrown over the edge of the bed and pressed into the soft mattress. She struggled, kicking out her legs and paid for it with searing pain all over her scalp as one of the men pulled her head up by a fistful of hair.

"Shut up."

The whispered words of the man only terrified her even more and Lisa's eyes refused to open. She screamed, but her cry for help was muted by the gag.

"If you don't stop screaming," the gravelly voice growled, "I'm gonna inject you with something you won't like."

Lisa stopped screaming immediately.