Bend For No One (Ruin Syndicate #2)

He was assigned to guard the family’s softest target. He never read a worse file in his life.

Nico Ferro runs four hundred million euros through forty jurisdictions before lunch, charms auditors and doormen alike, and has spent fourteen months making sure no one knows what three days chained in a freighter’s hold left behind.He does not need a bodyguard. He especially does not need this one: a silent mountain of a man who rekeys the building, stocks the freezer, and reads Nico two moves back every single time.

Ruy Alves has one rule, written in blood on a coast road six years ago: never let the principal become a person.Attachment is the round you don’t hear coming.But Nico Ferro notices everything, performs fearlessness like armor, and hides a fault line only Ruy can see, and rule by rule, night by night, the wall Ruy built to keep men like this at four meters’ distance begins to fail inspection.

Then a mainland consortium comes to collect a two-hundred-million-euro debt in the family’s own blood, the siege turns personal, and the only way to end it puts Nico back in exactly the kind of room he swore he’d never see again, with Ruy holding the one thing he swore he’d never hold: a man he can’t afford to lose.

A steamy, high-stakes MM omegaverse dark romance featuring an alpha bodyguard, an omega who refuses to be anyone’s soft target, a slow-burn forced-proximity bond, a consent-forward heat, and a found family that fights like a fist. Standalone HEA set in the world of Kneel for No One. For adult readers.