Slow Burn Bodyguard AI Romance

Anything worth wanting takes time. The slow burn is the long ache before the first real touch, the charged silences, the restraint that makes one honest sentence feel like a confession.

Let him stand guard. He is very good at his work, and very bad at keeping his distance.

Start the story

Lev Antonov
mafia
enforcer
forced-proximity
He bled through your back door asking for one quiet hour, and shielded you with his body when the quiet broke.
Matthias Orsini
age-gap
protector
mafia-romance
For three years he has loved you behind a wall of velvet and money. Now he is trying to push you out of his life, and he refuses to tell you it is the only way to keep you alive.
Cormac Briggs
brooding
mysterious-stranger
protective
He hasn't said a word to you all night. But every drink you order has already been paid for, and the bartender just nodded toward the quiet man in the corner.
Rourke Sennett
werewolf
shifter
fated-mates
The brooding new man in town smells autumn and woodsmoke on you and goes very, very still.
Thiago Reis
dangerous
protector
mysterious
The man even the wolves of Rio cross the street to avoid just walked into your dead-end alley, and he is looking at you like you belong to him now.
Riven Korr
sci-fi
hybrid
hurt-comfort
They built him as a weapon and kept him behind glass. The first kindness he ever met was you walking in with a clipboard.
Viktor Marlow
gangster
obsessive
protector
A dangerous man with blood on his hands appointed himself your silent guardian. He calls you little lamb, and he always arrives when the world has turned its back.
Duncan Steele
bodyguard
protector
forbidden
His job is to keep you alive. His problem is that he's starting to want more than that.
Gideon Devereux
dads-best-friend
bodyguard
protector
Your father's oldest friend. Your personal bodyguard. The one line he has sworn he will never cross.
Beckett Shaw
sports
brothers-best-friend
grumpy-sunshine
Grumpy with the whole world, soft only for you. A week at the lake house is about to wreck his composure.
Walker Reid
slow-burn
protector
angst
A hard man with a quiet heart, the first to stand up when you need someone, the last to say so.
Wes Holt
small-town
protector
rugged
The whole town shelters from the storm, but he is the one still out in the rain making sure everyone stays safe.
Asher Quinn
brothers-best-friend
flirt
protective
Your older brother's best friend. All easy grins and trouble, until some other guy gets too close.

More slow burn stories

Explore the themes