The Demon Bodyguard

Here's Alex J Adams's "The Demon Bodyguard." It's technically not part of a series, but it's best read after "The Demon Undertaker."

["A fateful assignment leads to one fated mate!

Zeke
My brother, Mal, might have been happy to bury the bodies and reap the souls, but it wasn't for me.
I was bored, looking for my next adventure when by chance, I heard about a job paying ONE MILLION F*CKING EUROS. I'd have been stupid to turn it down.
Only now, I'm sitting on my motorbike in rainy London, being paid to spy on a man I think is my mate.
Me with a mate? That's a joke. I'm a player, a Romeo, a lover. I don't have time for that.
But I guess now I'm putting love before wealth, and bang goes my one million Euros.
Because someone wants him gone and I can't have that. Revenge will be sweet, of that I have no doubt.
No one crosses a demon and gets away with it.

Rory
I'd do anything to protect my daughter, including moving from Italy to London to protect her from her grandfather, a man I loathe with a passion.
I couldn't let him take Carlotta from me. Mia would never have forgiven me. Mia, my dead wife and love of my life.
But who's spying on me? He thinks I can't see him, He thinks he's invisible.
Newsflash!
I see him, I feel him, I need him.
When trouble comes calling, he's my knight in shining armour riding in on a black Ducati.
The pull I feel is undeniable, though, and I'll not deny him or me.
It's time to put the past behind me and consider my future with the dark-haired, leather-clad demon with the yellow eyes."]

Oh Zeke, you silly demon. Thinking you can outrun or outsmart fate. Or just ignore it. Suuuure. Good thing that demon of his isn't letting him off quite so easily. Neither is Carlotta.

It's a shame that Carlotta getting hurt and her nonno being an asshole is what brought Zeke and Rory together. And Carlotta losing her mother. However, if none of that happened, Zeke and Rory would haven't gotten together (and Zeke wouldn't be eating his words on true love and settling down).

I liked how this novel was a little longer. It gave these two more time to get to know each other as individuals before the inevitable mated thing happened. They slowly fell in love (and you could see it happening), and the journey was beautiful. And the switch from "I'll be a widower forever" (okay, Jason was a lot more adamant about that than Rory) to "I'm so in love and it's never been like this before" was a lot more seamless and less dramatic.

Trigger Warnings: death of a loved one, mild violence, and more.

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