Protective love interest stories

Kittagishi Kuriyama has served you since you were both teenagers, and every flawless detail hides how hard he is really trying to earn that perfection.

Tsuyuya Minato runs a global zaibatsu with a cold, commanding reputation, but two years into marriage he still counts the hours until he sees you.

Your husband Tidoto Enryu runs a global company and dotes on you every morning before work, but even his own reflection makes him a little jealous of you.

Bought off a slave block by a noble rumored to be cruel, you learn Kakiigishi Ogiyama only buys illegal slaves to free them, and now you live in his house.

King Seon Jion has real anger management issues and a court that fears him, but around his wife, you, he turns instantly calm and adoring.

Three years into the outbreak, you're a WCT officer surrounded by five men who all watch you a little too closely, and one teammate nobody trusts.

In the middle of a fight, you pull off your ring and throw it on the table. Osric Ashbourne stares at it, then at you, and tells you to put it back on.

A stalker chases you again, and you crash straight into Detective Gamaol's arms. He has liked you for far longer than you realized.

You're burned out, lonely, and barely holding on. Faramond Kelso pulls you back from the train platform and won't let go easy.

You wake with early-onset Alzheimer's and no memory of the husband beside you. Ye Ra-rim reads your voice for signs of who you are this morning.

Seven months into a zombie outbreak, an injury forces you into a pharmacy where Xerxes Rotherwick holds you at gunpoint, certain you're infected.

Exiled for loving a human, you slip back into the dragon sanctuary broken and powerless. The first to find you is Edgar Moss, the Red Dragon you once rejected.

As a company president's daughter, you get a new bodyguard: Antagishi Sugiharu, ex-underworld, tattooed, and determined to call himself your dog out loud.

Ex-military bodyguard Nadia Pell tracks your every move, calls you pathetic, and still refuses to let anything touch you.

Michelin chef Mateo Rivas cooks for you every night and turns into a sulky puppy the moment your goodbye kiss feels too short.

The Kingdom exiles you from the Hero's Party by letter. The next morning, the listless Hero Mina Tran is waiting outside the inn: she quit too.

Duke Annakagishi Hagiyama commands shadows and has never known love. Then he sees you in a crowd and cannot look away.

Rantada Kitsuya, commander of the kingdom's Knight Order, catches you staring on the capital's main street and walks straight over to ask why.

Ishikawaya towers 39cm over you and teases you like a kid at every turn, but everyone in the office except you already knows exactly why.

Detective Han Sihyeok worries about you every single time you're late, then greets you at the door with nothing but a sharp, grumbling scolding.

Hojo-in has served you since childhood with flawless composure for everyone but you, and dangerously overprotective devotion only you receive.

Rika Mizushi has loved you since a stranger's funeral when you were both children, and waited years in silence to become a man worth collecting you.

Crime boss Ra Da-yul rushes through paperwork just to get home to you, the ordinary woman he married after one blind date, doted on and worried over.

You have spent months trying to provoke your silent bodyguard into a reaction. Gung Jabom never breaks, until you find the one thing he can't stay quiet about.

Arashi is a reformed yakuza turned security president who never yells, spoils you constantly, and cannot stand an outfit he judges immodest.

You rule a sun-scorched kingdom as its living sun deity. Kurifujimura Sakatsuki, your sworn guard, would give his life before letting anyone reach you.

Shunned by the queen and confined to the annex, you're guarded by a scarred knight the court calls ugly, and family everywhere else calls home.

Martin Reed, a 500-year-old elf called the Forbidden Mage, has not had an apprentice in a century. You reach his door, and he hugs you like family.

Your husband Nagishima Densaku hasn't come home. You go looking through his dark, empty company and find him waiting behind the president's door.

You're the only angel on Earth, adored by the whole world, and today you're begging your masked bodyguard Edmund Pryce to take it off again.

You are a rescued beast-human, fragile and half-blind. Makoto, your calm new Lead, unwraps your blanket and promises you're safe now.

At a tea party with Lily in a world of Poppy Playtime characters, Dr. Nick Jarvis hugs you from behind and won't let go. Only Prototype notices.

King Killian Northam once ruled through war. Now he worries over you, the rare white-born he took under his personal protection.

Soaked and lost on a rain-slicked street, you are found by Officer Percy Stirling, a dog-eared beastman cop whose kindness might not be entirely selfless.

You're the infant daughter of Keir Ironside, boss of the crime organization RM, and your crying just brought a killer running.

Colonel Caius Cinderford took you in eight years ago as a lost teenager, and tonight he's pacing the kitchen, anxious that you're late for the dinner he made.

Shioya just caught his fiancee cheating with your fiance. He finds you crying on the street and decides, on the spot, to take you for himself.

You left home human and came back a vampire, past midnight with a dead phone. Your girlfriend of five years, cop Idony Shaw, stares, then says: come here.

Your wife Kakitagishi Shoyama is the perfect homemaker by day. At 4 AM, alone with her coffee, she is a top spy on a mission that is you.

You ran from home with nothing but a bag. Thrown out into the Texas night, you meet Florian Ingraham, a rancher who warns Texas eats people like you.

Sun Gabeun, a towering yakuza chairman, married you as the price of a truce. Now he flees every night, terrified he might accidentally hurt you.

Cheated on, kicked out, and left with nothing, you are found crying in the rain by Saeko Shimomoto, a young CEO who refuses to just walk past you.

Seo Minjun is the country's youngest Minister of Economy and Finance, and at home an exacting, old-school husband you have to learn to navigate.

Sa Gadeun, heir to the JK Group, wears a house-priced watch but waits outside your part-time job to sit across from you at a market tteokbokki stall.

You have a terminal prognosis. Your oncologist, Suzuma Shinonome, jokes and teases you through every appointment, and somehow that is what keeps you steady.

As a cat beastman looking for somewhere to sleep, you wander into an elevator that only leads to Akira's speakeasy bar.

You are first in line for the throne, and three guards have every exit covered on banquet night. Pick who you test first.

Wilhelm executes nobles who defy him and terrifies his own court, but the King everyone fears turns instantly gentle the moment he looks at his wife.