TITLE: FALLING FOR MY BODYGUARD After receiving anonymous death threats, rising actress Aria is assigned a bodyguard. His name is Lucien. Cold. Silent. Annoyingly handsome. He follows her everywhere, refuses to smile, and treats protecting her like a military mission. The more time they spend together, the harder it becomes to ignore the sparks between them. But Lucien has one rule. Bodyguards never fall in love with the person they're protecting. Especially when loving her could cost him his career... and his life.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ LUCIEN HART ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ❝My job is to protect you... not fall in love with you.❞ Age: 28 Height: 6'4" (193 cm) Weight: 90 kg (198 lbs) Occupation: Elite Executive Bodyguard Nationality: British Hair: Jet black Eyes: Steel grey Build: Tall, muscular, broad shoulders, athletic Status: Single ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PERSONALITY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Protective • Calm under pressure • Loyal • Emotionally reserved • Observant • Intelligent • Disciplined • Patient • Gentle with those he trusts • Fearless ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ LIKES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Black coffee • Early morning workouts • Motorcycles • Classical music • Rainy weather • Reading crime novels • Peace and quiet ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DISLIKES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Paparazzi • Dishonesty • Carelessness • Crowded parties • Breaking promises • Seeing innocent people hurt • Losing someone he loves ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ STRENGTHS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Expert marksman • Hand-to-hand combat • Defensive driving • Quick decision-making • Fluent in several languages • Excellent strategist ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WEAKNESSES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Overprotective • Keeps his feelings hidden • Blames himself when others are hurt • Finds it difficult to trust people • Will sacrifice himself to save someone he loves ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ LOVE LANGUAGE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Acts of Service • Physical Touch • Quality Time ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FUN FACTS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Always notices when you're uncomfortable before you say anything. • Secretly keeps a photo of you in his wallet. • Has never broken a protection contract. • Smiles so rarely that people are shocked when they see it.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ARIA BENNETT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ❝I may live in the spotlight, but I refuse to let it define me.❞ Age: 24 Height: 5'7" (170 cm) Weight: 56 kg (123 lbs) Occupation: Award-Winning Actress Nationality: American Hair: Long dark brown, soft waves Eyes: Emerald green Build: Slim and elegant Status: Single ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PERSONALITY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Kind-hearted • Independent • Confident • Compassionate • Witty • Determined • Optimistic • Loyal • Playful • Stubborn ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ LIKES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Coffee dates • Reading romance novels • Sunset walks • Dogs • Ice cream • Traveling • Piano music • Spending time with loved ones ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DISLIKES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Fake people • Rumors • Being underestimated • Paparazzi invading her privacy • Dishonesty • Violence • Being treated like a fragile celebrity ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ STRENGTHS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Charismatic • Quick thinker • Empathetic • Strong communicator • Courageous • Never gives up on the people she loves ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WEAKNESSES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Trusts people too easily • Hides her pain behind a smile • Overworks herself • Can be impulsive • Finds it difficult to ask for help ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ LOVE LANGUAGE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Words of Affirmation • Quality Time • Physical Touch ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FUN FACTS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Loves wearing oversized hoodies when she's off-camera. • Secretly enjoys cooking, even though she's terrible at it. • Donates anonymously to children's charities every year. • Always names the stray cats she meets. • Feels safest whenever Lucien is nearby—even before she realizes she's falling in love with him.
The Bodyguard
ARIA'S POV
Flash.
Flash.
Flash.
The blinding camera lights hit me the moment I stepped out of the limousine.
"Aria! Over here!"
"Smile!"
"Who are you wearing tonight?"
The crowd erupted into cheers as I smoothed down the silky black fabric of my dress and forced on the smile I'd perfected over the last five years.
The smile everyone loved.
The smile that convinced the world my life was perfect.
If only they knew.
I waved at the fans gathered behind the barricades, my heart warming as a little girl held up a sign that read, I want to be an actress like you one day!
Moments like these reminded me why I fell in love with acting in the first place.
Not the fame.
Not the red carpets.
Not the endless interviews.
It was the chance to inspire someone.
"Miss Bennett."
My manager, Sophie, appeared beside me with an unusually serious expression.
"We need to get inside."
I frowned.
"Already? The event hasn't even started."
She glanced over her shoulder before leaning closer.
"Just... stay close to security."
Before I could ask why, another burst of cameras exploded around us.
I slipped into actress mode again.
Smile.
Wave.
Pose.
Pretend everything is fine.
The ballroom doors came into view, only a few steps away.
Then...
A sharp whistle cut through the noise.
Something flew past my head.
Crash!
A flower vase shattered behind me.
People screamed.
Security rushed forward.
Someone grabbed my wrist.
"Move!"
Before I could react, I was pulled against a hard chest and surrounded by strong arms as my body was shielded from the chaos.
The world became a blur of shouting voices and running footsteps.
I looked up.
For a brief second, all I saw were storm-grey eyes.
Cold.
Focused.
Unshaken.
"You'll be safe," the stranger said in a calm, commanding voice.
"I won't let anything happen to you."
That was the first time I met Lucien Hart...
The man who was about to turn my carefully controlled life upside down.*
Release Date 2026.07.23 / Last Updated 2026.07.23