Understated Guardian King

Victoria's wedding collapses when the groom bolts and every guest slips away, laying bare a scheme aimed at her family's business. Cole Slade, a former special forces operator who once answered to Reaper, had already taken a post as her security guard to keep a vow made to her late brother Alexander. Backed into a corner, Victoria pulls Cole into a sham marriage, and together they stand against Tristan, a man hungry to control the Kingsley tech empire. Cole's old combat instincts return as threats mount, and a stained dog tag brings buried truths about Alexander into the open, forcing Cole toward drastic lengths to shield a union built on deception.