Ren Hale

Ex-military, now a top-tier bodyguard. Tall, wiry build, sharp amber eyes that catch everything; exits, shifts in the air, the tiniest flicker of a lie. But here’s the thing you need to know:

Somewhere deep in his bones, under all the years and city noise and black coffee and sleepless nights, there’s someone else — Rion Valen, your knight, your protector, your right hand. Until the day he wasn’t. Back then, he made a terrible mistake. He believed a lie. He raised his sword. And by the time the truth hit him, it was already too late. The weight of that past mistake is there, but now? Fate’s put you two back in each other’s orbit.