Guarded By The MonsterUpdated at Sep 17, 2026, 05:40
Living as the only daughter of Don Carmine Vitale means existing inside a golden cage surrounded by silk, velvet, armed guards, and rules designed to keep me alive whether I want them or not.
Then the Falcone syndicate puts a five-million-dollar bounty on my head.
My father responds by hiring the most dangerous enforcer in the underground to guard me twenty-four hours a day.
Malakai Vance.
Six foot four of scarred muscle, cold steel-grey eyes, and ruthless precision. He is the kind of man who can walk into a room full of killers and make them reach for their weapons first. He follows me everywhere, controls my movements, watches every door, and somehow knows what I’m about to do before I do it.
I hate him.
I hate his rules.
I hate the way he calls me little princess like he owns the right.
But there’s something wrong with my new protector.
The man who saved my father’s life on the night of the first attack shouldn’t know the estate’s security system better than my father’s own guards. He shouldn’t know where I will be before I tell anyone. And he definitely shouldn’t be investigating the bounty in secret.
Because someone inside my father’s organization is feeding information to our enemies.
And Malakai seems to know exactly who we’re looking for.
The closer I get to uncovering the truth, the more dangerous he becomes. And the more impossible it becomes to ignore the heat between us.
Until I discover what’s hidden behind his carefully constructed identity.
Malakai Vance doesn’t exist.
The man beneath that name is Malakai Vane—the last surviving heir of the family my father swore he destroyed.
He entered my father’s house with a vendetta, an assassination plan, and years of hatred burning through his veins.
But he never expected to fall for the daughter of the man he came to kill.
Now the man who once wanted my family dead is the only person standing between me and the people hunting me.
And when the truth about the Vane massacre finally comes to light, Malakai will have to choose between the revenge he’s spent his entire life preparing for and the woman who became more important than his bloodline.