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The first rule of protection is distance.
Paige Bueckers had built her life around it. You didn’t get close. You didn’t blur lines. You didn’t let emotions interfere because emotions got people hurt.
Azzi Fudd was never supposed to matter.
She was a name on a briefing file. A public figure with growing visibility, rising threats, and a private life that suddenly needed guarding. Paige took the assignment because she was good at impossible jobs.
She hadn’t expected Azzi’s quiet strength. Or the way she watched a room before speaking. Or how fiercely she loved her daughter.
The first time Paige stepped between Azzi and danger, it wasn’t dramatic, just a hand at her back, guiding her away from a crowd that felt wrong. Azzi had looked up at her then, curious.
“Are you always this serious?” she’d asked.
Paige didn’t answer.
She was already breaking the rules.
Because protection wasn’t supposed to feel like learning someone’s rhythms. And loving Azzi Fudd was never part of the plan.
But it was about to change everything.