The Bodyguard She Married

Wren Adeyemi has one rule: the principal lives. Eight years in the Army, four years in private security, and she has never lost a client. The death threats against Adekunle Balogun are specific, credible, and tied to the Lagos port deal. His insurer requires a family member on the payroll. She's the nearest thing he has, and the paperwork is uncomfortably simple. She marries him on a Tuesday in a Madrid registry office and goes back on shift Wednesday at five a.m. For six months she's wife and protection and nothing else — until the night a pipe bomb goes off in a service corridor and she takes the shrapnel meant for him. He doesn't leave her hospital bed. Neither of them mentions the contract. Neither of them mentions the year, either. When the threats stop, everything that was written down stops with them. Except the two of them.