Anastasia Aleeksevich, a sweet and determined Yale student, has spent her life sheltered from danger, but when a bodyguard is assigned to protect her, her world is turned upside down. Christian Russo is cold, calculating, and assigned to watch over...
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I stare at the picture I was given of the girl. She looks so different now—older, more mature, and undeniably beautiful. I remember her so clearly from that night seven years ago. Part of me still wonders why I didn't speak up when I saw her hiding under her bed, praying that no one would find her.
Maybe it was because I understood her fear. The loneliness, the terror. She was just a child, caught in a world she didn't deserve. It wasn't her fault her father had tangled with people like us.
But now, she's turning 18 in November. She's going to Yale. She's out there, living her life, free from everything that happened.
I clutch the photograph tightly in my hands. Her dark hair cascades down in waves to her waist, her bright green eyes sparkling with life as she stands in her floral dress. It's like she's still that innocent girl from all those years ago—but different. Changed.
"You think you can do it by January?" My father came in. I don't bother looking up at him. Stupid bastard thinks he can manipulate me.
"Why do you need her so badly? Kidnap someone else." I say, placing the picture down at the table in front of me.
My father sighed. He walked across the conference room towards me, taking a seat beside me.
"Son, you know how crucial a Russian heir is for this. She's the key. Her father was powerful," he said, flipping open her file.
"And you really think getting her pregnant will fix everything?" I snapped, yanking the file out of his hands.
My father's expression hardened, his voice cold. "Gain her trust. You have four months."
Of course. To him, I was nothing more than a tool—a means to expand his empire, a pawn in his endless pursuit of wealth and power.
